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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.

Zora Neale Hurston

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Beginning Kiss Sing Tree World
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
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.
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Death Light People See Yourself
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
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
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself
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
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
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 makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Family Humor Myself Nation See

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