Mystery is the essence of divinity
ZORA NEALE HURSTONTwo things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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 sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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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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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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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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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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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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 are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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