I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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