Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIn the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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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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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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