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Zora Neale Hurston

Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Different Love Philosophy Sea
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Eyes Myself Yourself
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
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
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
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
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
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Eyes Food Man Nature Philosophy Season See
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
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
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God

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