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 HURSTONTruth is a letter from courage!
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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