“There is two things everybody got to find out for theirselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it must be done while being goaded by an unhappy memory.”
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“..Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.”
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“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
― Dust Tracks on a Road
― Dust Tracks on a Road
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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