Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Love 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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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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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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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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