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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONSometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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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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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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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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 stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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