It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI 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 knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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