An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAn envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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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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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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