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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Deep Herself
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
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Different Love Sea
Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Herself Live Season Spring
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul
Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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God Live
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
Love, I find, is like singing.
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Love Myself One Liner Sing
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Fight Herself Lie Myself Patriot
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Black Death Easy Myself
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.
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Herself Moon Rise
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Future Past Present

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

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