There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLook like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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 was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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