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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere 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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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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 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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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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