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

Zora Neale Hurston

Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Hide Himself Love Place Soul
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
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
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
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
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
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
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
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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Herself Thinking Word
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See

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