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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

Zora Neale Hurston

Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Friendship Lying Scare
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
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Fear Herself Understand
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
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
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Eyes Myself Yourself
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
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Black Death Easy Myself
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
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
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself

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