You heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONTwo 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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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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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