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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

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
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
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
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
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Hide Inspirational
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 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
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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Illusion Myself Reality Search Walk
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
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

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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