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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONSo her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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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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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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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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