She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONTea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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When one is too old for love, 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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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