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Zora Neale Hurston

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
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Friendship Live Morning Myself
If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Kill Pain Silence Yourself
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
Love, I find, is like singing.
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Love Myself One Liner Sing
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
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
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
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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Herself Thinking Word
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
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World

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