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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

If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Kill Pain Silence Yourself
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
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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Grown Up People Thinking
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Eyes Myself Yourself
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Children Herself Opportunity
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul
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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Enjoyment Greatness Herself Life Suffering Tree
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
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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Mindset Myself
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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Different Love Sea
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Friendship Live Morning Myself
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Hide Himself Love Place Soul
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself
And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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Black Death Easy Myself
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See

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