No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLook like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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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 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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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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