She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONBitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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