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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Zora Neale Hurston

I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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Hands Myself
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep 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 is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Different Love Philosophy 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
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
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
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
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
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.
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Children Herself Opportunity
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself

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