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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.

Zora Neale Hurston

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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Moon Rise
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Different Love Philosophy Sea
My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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Family Humor Myself Nation See
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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Heart Hope Yourself
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Experience Future Happiness Hope Life Mindset Myself Time Yourself

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