They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIn the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude 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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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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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