It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAnd 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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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She 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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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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 had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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