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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

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
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
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
If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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Death Light People See Yourself
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
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
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
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
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
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
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
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Herself Life Struggle
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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Family Humor Myself Nation See
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
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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Different Love Philosophy Sea
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
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
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
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World

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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