She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONGrown 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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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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 wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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