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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

Zora Neale Hurston

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
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
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
Love, I find, is like singing.
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Love Myself One Liner Sing
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
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
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Forever Right
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Herself Life Struggle
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Hide Himself Love Place Soul
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Kill Life
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
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
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Hurt Revenge World
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Philosophy
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Dream Herself Love Marriage Woman

It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

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