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

Zora Neale Hurston

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Future Past Present
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Friendship Lying Scare
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Kill Life
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Black Man Ocean Place Power See
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Hide Love Place Soul
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself People See
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

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

Herself Live Season Spring
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Illusion Myself Reality Search Walk
Truth is a letter from courage!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Courage Truth
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Philosophy
My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Family Humor Myself Nation See
There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Live Love Philosophy
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
It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Funny Quick Right
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Live Marriage Spirit

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

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