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

Zora Neale Hurston

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
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
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
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
Love, I find, is like singing.
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Love Myself One Liner Sing
I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Mindset Myself
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
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Black Death Easy Myself
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Live Marriage Spirit
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself People See
If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Enjoyment Kill Pain Silence Yourself
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Children Herself Opportunity
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself

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