Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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