There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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