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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

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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Mindset Sound Touch Word
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
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Herself Life Struggle
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
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself
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
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 knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Dream Herself Love Marriage Woman
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Doubt Myself
Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Different Love Philosophy Sea
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Live Love Philosophy
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

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

Heart Hope Yourself
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Illusion Myself Reality Search Walk

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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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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