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You heard me. You ain’t blind.

Zora Neale Hurston

Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Fight Herself Lie Myself Patriot
Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Black Man Ocean Place Power See
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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Illusion Myself Reality Search Walk
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
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
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
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Herself Life Struggle
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

God Live
She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Be Yourself Herself Instagram Captions
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
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

You heard me. You ain’t blind.

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