It was the meanest moment of eternity.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHoney, 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 makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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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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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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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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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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