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 HURSTONIf you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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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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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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