Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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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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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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