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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

Zora Neale Hurston

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Live Marriage Spirit
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Darkness Eyes God
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Fight Herself Lie Myself Patriot
I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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Hands Myself
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
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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Different Himself Oneself World
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Hide Inspirational
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
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself

They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

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