Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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