I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONJanie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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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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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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