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

Zora Neale Hurston

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
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
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
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Death Dream Herself Love Marriage Woman
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
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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Grown Up People Thinking
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Eyes Myself Yourself
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
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
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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