You heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove 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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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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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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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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