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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt was the meanest moment of eternity.
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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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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.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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