Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHoney, 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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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