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.
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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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Janie 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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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