It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLook like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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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.
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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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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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