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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.

Zora Neale Hurston

Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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Book Herself Reading
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life
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
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
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
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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Act Dream Forget Remember Truth Woman
Love, I find, is like singing.
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Love Myself One Liner Sing
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Funny Quick Right
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
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Fight Herself Lie Myself Patriot
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Light People See Yourself

Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.

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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.

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