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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

Zora Neale Hurston

She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Be Yourself Herself Instagram Captions
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
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
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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Herself Thinking Word
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
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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Death Light People See Yourself
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
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Death Dream Herself Love Marriage Woman
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul
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.
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Deep Philosophy
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
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
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself

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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