Truth is a letter from courage!
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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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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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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