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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

Zora Neale Hurston

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Pain Silence 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
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 stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Herself
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
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
She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Illusion Myself Reality Search Walk
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
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
Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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God Live
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Fight Herself Lie Myself Patriot
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
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
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World

It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

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