So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude 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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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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