"But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem."
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"I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms."
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"There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food."
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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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"He looked like the love thoughts of women."
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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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"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."
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"Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!"
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"I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal."
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"Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue."
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"every heart has its graveyard."
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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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"From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep."
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"I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor."
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"Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear."
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"It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual."
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"Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find."
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"Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much."
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"A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got."
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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."
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