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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.

Zora Neale Hurston

It was the meanest moment of eternity.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Forever Moments One Liner
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Herself Life Struggle
It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Funny Quick Right
I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Appearance Laugh Love Myself
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
He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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Different Himself Oneself World
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Different Love Sea
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness 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
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
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night

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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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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