He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONSo her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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