Truth is a letter from courage!
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf 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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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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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 was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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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.
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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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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