Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNight came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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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.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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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 have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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