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.
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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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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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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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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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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