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He looked like the love thoughts of women.

Zora Neale Hurston

Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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Herself Thinking Word
In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Doubt Hell Love
Love, I find, is like singing.
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Love Myself One Liner Sing
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
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
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
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
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
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.
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Death Experience Future Happiness Hope Life Mindset Myself Time Yourself
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Children Herself Opportunity
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
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Mindset Myself

He looked like the love thoughts of women.

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