No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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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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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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