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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

Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
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
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
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
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
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Appearance Laugh Love Myself
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.
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Illusion Myself Reality Search Walk
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
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
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
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
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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Heart Hope Yourself
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
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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Death Experience Future Happiness Hope Life Mindset Myself Time Yourself
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.
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Death Light People See Yourself
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.
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Black Man Ocean Place Power See
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Herself Life Struggle
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.
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Family Humor Myself Nation See
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
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

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