A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNight came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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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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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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