He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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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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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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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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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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