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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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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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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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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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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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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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