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Zora Neale Hurston

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
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself
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
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
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
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
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
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
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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Book Herself Reading
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Herself Life Struggle

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