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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.

Zora Neale Hurston

People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
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.
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Feeling Mindset Sound Touch Word
She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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Book Herself Reading
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Death Dream Herself Love Marriage Woman
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
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself
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.
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Black Death Easy Myself
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
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
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
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

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