Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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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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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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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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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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