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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.

Zora Neale Hurston

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Kill Life
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Live Love Philosophy
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Friendship Lying Scare
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Moon Rise
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Heart Hope Yourself
Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Beginning Kiss Sing Tree World
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Goodness Pay Understand 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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Black Man Ocean Place Power See
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
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Heart
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Grief Herself
People can be slave ships in shoes.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

People Slave
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

God Person
I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Experience Future Happiness Hope Life Mindset Myself Time Yourself
In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Doubt Hell Love

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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