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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.

Zora Neale Hurston

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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Herself Moon Rise
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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Deep Eyes Food Man Nature Philosophy Season See
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Herself Life Struggle
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
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
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
Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Hide Inspirational
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
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human 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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Death Dream Herself Love Marriage Woman

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