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 HURSTONShips at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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