She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThose that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide 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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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