In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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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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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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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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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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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 starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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