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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Zora Neale Hurston

Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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Herself Thinking Word
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
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Children Herself Opportunity
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
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
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
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
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Mindset Myself
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Eyes Myself Yourself
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Herself Life Struggle
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul
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
Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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God Live
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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Deep Eyes Food Man Nature Philosophy Season See
I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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Death Experience Future Happiness Hope Life Mindset Myself Time Yourself

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