Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONSo her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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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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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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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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