Truth is a letter from courage!
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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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 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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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