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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONPeople can be slave ships in shoes.
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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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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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