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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

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
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
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
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Kill Pain Silence Yourself
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
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Dream Herself Love Marriage Woman
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
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
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
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
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
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 knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

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