If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI 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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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 was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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