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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Zora Neale Hurston

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Hide Inspirational
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
Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Different Love Philosophy Sea
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul
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
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
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
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
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

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