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He looked like the love thoughts of women.

Zora Neale Hurston

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
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
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
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
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
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
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Appearance Laugh Love Myself
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
So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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Herself Moon Rise
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
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
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
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Live Marriage Spirit

He looked like the love thoughts of women.

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