My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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