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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONPeople can be slave ships in shoes.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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