An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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