No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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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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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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