She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThose that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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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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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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