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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

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
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
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
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
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
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
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
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
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
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
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
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
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Different Love Sea
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
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
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
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Fight Herself Lie Myself Patriot
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
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 starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Herself Live Season Spring

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