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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

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
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Eyes Myself Yourself
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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Family Humor Myself Nation 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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Experience Future Happiness Hope Life Mindset Myself Time Yourself
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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Feeling Mindset Sound Touch Word
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Myself World

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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