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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Zora Neale Hurston

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Big Distance Time
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Thinking Word
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 will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Fight Herself Lie Myself Patriot
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Fantasy Imagination Ocean People 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
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
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Moon Rise
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Hide Love Place Soul
It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Funny Quick Right
Love, I find, is like singing.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Love Myself One Liner Sing
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Black Death Easy Myself
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
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Purpose Search
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Friendship Lying Scare
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Heart

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