When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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