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

Zora Neale Hurston

She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
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.
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Hands Myself
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
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.
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Illusion Myself Reality Search Walk
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself
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
Love, I find, is like singing.
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Love Myself One Liner Sing
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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Act Dream Forget Remember Truth Woman
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.
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Black Death Easy Myself
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself

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

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