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

Zora Neale Hurston

They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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Different Himself Oneself World
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
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.
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Children Herself Opportunity
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
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
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
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
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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Death Experience Future Happiness Hope Life Mindset Myself Time Yourself
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Mindset Myself
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Beginning Kiss Sing Tree World
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Eyes Myself Yourself
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
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.
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Black Death Easy Myself
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
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

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