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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.

Zora Neale Hurston

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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Black Man Ocean Place Power See
I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Appearance Laugh Love Myself
In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Doubt Hell Love
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
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
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
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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Feeling Mindset Sound Touch Word
Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Herself Live Season Spring
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
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 seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Friendship Live Morning Myself

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