An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMy head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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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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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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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