Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNo hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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