She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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