Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove 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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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