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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONA thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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