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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.

Zora Neale Hurston

I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Appearance Laugh Love Myself
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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Illusion Myself Reality Search Walk
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
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
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 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
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.
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Black Man Ocean Place Power See
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Life Struggle
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Eyes Myself Yourself
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love 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.
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Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself

She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.

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