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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.

Zora Neale Hurston

Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Friendship Lying Scare
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Hands Myself
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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Illusion Myself Reality Search Walk
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Philosophy
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Black Man Ocean Place Power See
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Distance Man
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Black Heart Herself Night
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Forever Right
I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Appearance Laugh Love Myself
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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Book Herself Reading
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Light People See Yourself
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Grown Up People Thinking
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Thinking Word

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.

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