Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere 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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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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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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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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