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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

Zora Neale Hurston

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Heart Hope Yourself
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Philosophy
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Live Marriage Spirit
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself
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
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Black Heart Herself Night
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
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Black Man Ocean Place Power See
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Herself
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Act Dream Forget Remember Truth Woman
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Life Struggle
If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Enjoyment Kill Pain Silence Yourself
Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Beginning Kiss Sing Tree World
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Forever Moments One Liner
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

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