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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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