Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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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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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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 wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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