Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHe was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Two 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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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 wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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