You heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMystery is the essence of divinity
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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 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 had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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