No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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