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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.

Zora Neale Hurston

She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself People See
So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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Herself Moon Rise
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Hide Love Place Soul
Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Beginning Kiss Sing Tree World
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Himself Love Woman
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
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
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
Love, I find, is like singing.
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Love Myself One Liner Sing
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
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
If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Enjoyment Kill Pain Silence Yourself

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