When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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