An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONGrown 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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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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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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.
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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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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 wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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