You heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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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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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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