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

Zora Neale Hurston

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
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
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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Deep Eyes Food Man Nature Philosophy Season See
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
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
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
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
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.
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Black Death Easy Myself
If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Kill Pain Silence Yourself
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See

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