He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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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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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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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed 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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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