An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONSo she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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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 had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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