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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.

Zora Neale Hurston

No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Myself World
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Life Struggle
Mystery is the essence of divinity
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Divine Mystery One Liner
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
She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Book Herself Reading
People can be slave ships in shoes.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

People Slave
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Herself
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Big Distance Time
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
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

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

Heart Hope Yourself
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Herself Love Sun
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Children Herself Opportunity
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Eyes Myself Yourself
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself

There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.

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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.

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