Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAn envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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