She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAnytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving 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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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