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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.

Zora Neale Hurston

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Beginning Kiss Sing Tree World
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
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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Grown Up People Thinking
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Be Yourself Herself Instagram Captions
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
Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Live Season Spring
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Hands Myself
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
Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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Enjoyment Greatness Herself Life Suffering Tree

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