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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMy head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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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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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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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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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 saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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