It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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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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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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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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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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