Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI 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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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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