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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

Zora Neale Hurston

It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Fear Herself Understand
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Hide Himself Love Place Soul
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
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Doubt Myself
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Eyes Myself Yourself
She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Book Herself Reading
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Purpose Search
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
Mystery is the essence of divinity
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Divine Mystery One Liner
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Hide Place Soul
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Friendship Lying Scare
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Kill Life
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Forever Right
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Mindset Sound Touch Word
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

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