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Zora Neale Hurston Quotes about Singing

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.16, University of Illinois Press

Love, I find, is like singing.

Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.71, Feminist Press at CUNY

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.20, Feminist Press at CUNY