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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.

Zora Neale Hurston

Mystery is the essence of divinity
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Divine Mystery One Liner
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
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
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 was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Darkness Eyes God
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Different Love Philosophy Sea
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Friendship Live Morning Myself
I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Mindset Myself

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