There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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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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