The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLook like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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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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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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