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

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
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
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
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
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
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
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Hide Himself Love Place Soul
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
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
She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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