Mystery is the essence of divinity
ZORA NEALE HURSTONJanie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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