So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONOne finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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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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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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