She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONJanie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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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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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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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