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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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Feeling Mindset Sound Touch Word
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Herself Life Struggle
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Death Dream Herself Love Marriage Woman
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Hide Inspirational
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Eyes Myself Yourself
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
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
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
Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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Grown Up People Thinking
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.
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Act Dream Forget Remember Truth Woman
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Heart Hope Yourself
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
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
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.
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Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself

So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

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