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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.

Zora Neale Hurston

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
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
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Hide Himself Love Place Soul
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
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Fight Herself Lie Myself Patriot
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
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
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
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
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
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 didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.

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