People can be slave ships in shoes.
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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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