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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

They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
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
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
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
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
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
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
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.
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Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand

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