She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Love 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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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