She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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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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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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