An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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