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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHer old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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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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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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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 made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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