Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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