I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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 had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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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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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.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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