Mystery is the essence of divinity
ZORA NEALE HURSTONPeople can be slave ships in shoes.
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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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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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