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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.

Zora Neale Hurston

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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Deep Eyes Food Man Nature Philosophy Season See
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
Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Beginning Kiss Sing Tree World
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
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.
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Black Man Ocean Place Power See
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 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
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
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
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
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit

She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.

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