She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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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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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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