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
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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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.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Sometimes, 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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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