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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.

Zora Neale Hurston

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
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
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
She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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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
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
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Hide Inspirational
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
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
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
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
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
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
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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Different Himself Oneself World
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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Black Man Ocean Place Power See
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
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
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life

Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.

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