They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAn envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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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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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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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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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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