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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Zora Neale Hurston

My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Doubt Myself
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
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
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Myself World
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People 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
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
I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Hands Myself
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Human Yourself
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
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
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
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 was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Grief Herself
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Herself Love Sun

I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

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