Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe 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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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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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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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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