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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

Zora Neale Hurston

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself
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
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Funny Quick Right
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
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
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
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
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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Enjoyment Greatness Herself Life Suffering Tree
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
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself
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
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul

She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

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