There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONWhen one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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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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