Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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