Zora Neale Hurston - Sun Quotes

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The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.

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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun." We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

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Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.

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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.

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She woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.

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She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.

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Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the sun with his seven horns of flame is the father of life.

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Did marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated? Did marriage compel love like the sun the day?

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