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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston

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
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Friendship Lying Scare
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself People See
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Herself Man Save See
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Herself Love Sun
Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Different Love Sea
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Kill Life
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Doubt Myself
He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Different Himself Oneself World
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself
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
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Light People See Yourself
I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Mindset Myself
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Forever Right
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
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Enjoyment Greatness Herself Life Suffering Tree
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

So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

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