An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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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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