She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHe 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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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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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 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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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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