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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.

Zora Neale Hurston

Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Live Season Spring
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
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
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Black Death Easy Myself
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
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
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 had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Eyes Myself Yourself
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Grown Up People Thinking

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