If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONOne finds great comfort in good dinners.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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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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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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