The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Janie 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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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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