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

Zora Neale Hurston

Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Flower God Reality Wine
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Herself Love Sun
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life
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
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
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
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
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
So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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Herself Moon Rise
In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Doubt Hell Love
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
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
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Heart Hope Yourself
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
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

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