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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.

Zora Neale Hurston

She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Herself Live Season Spring
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
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.
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Deep Live Love Philosophy
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
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
Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Hide Inspirational
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 saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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Enjoyment Greatness Herself Life Suffering Tree
If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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Death Light People See Yourself
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

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