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
ZORA NEALE HURSTONSome people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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