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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Zora Neale Hurston

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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Children Herself Opportunity
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
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
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
I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Appearance Laugh Love Myself
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

God Person
Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Herself Live Season Spring
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Philosophy
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Eyes Myself Yourself
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
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
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Hands Myself
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Act Dream Forget Remember Truth Woman

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