Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONSo her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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