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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

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life
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
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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Feeling Mindset Sound Touch Word
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
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.
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Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself
Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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God Live
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
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
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself

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.

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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.

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