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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Zora Neale Hurston

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
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
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
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
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
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
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Herself Life Struggle
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
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
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
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
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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Deep Live Love Philosophy

I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

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