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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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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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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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