Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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 starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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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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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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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 stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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