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.
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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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So 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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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