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

Zora Neale Hurston

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
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.
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Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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Heart Hope Yourself
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
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.
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Different Love Philosophy Sea
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Herself Life Struggle
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
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
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Different Himself Oneself World

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

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

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