Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONYou heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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