Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf 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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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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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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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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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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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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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 was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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And 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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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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