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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

Zora Neale Hurston

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul
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.
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Different Love Sea
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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Herself Thinking Word
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
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
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.
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Deep Live Love Philosophy
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
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
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
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
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Fight Herself Lie Myself Patriot

It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

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