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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.

Zora Neale Hurston

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
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
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
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
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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Book Herself Reading
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
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
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
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
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time

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