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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

Zora Neale Hurston

She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
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
My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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Family Humor Myself Nation See
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Eyes Myself Yourself
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 have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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Illusion Myself Reality Search Walk
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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Herself Thinking Word
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
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

It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

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