There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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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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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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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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