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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.

Zora Neale Hurston

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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Heart Hope Yourself
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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Act Dream Forget Remember Truth Woman
In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Doubt Hell Love
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Hide Inspirational
And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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Black Death Easy Myself
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
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
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
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
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
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
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
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
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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Deep Live Love Philosophy
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
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
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

Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.

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