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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.

Zora Neale Hurston

It was the meanest moment of eternity.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Forever Moments One Liner
Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Different Love Sea
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Black Heart Herself Night
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Forever Right
People can be slave ships in shoes.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

People Slave
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Kill Life
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Grown Up People Thinking
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Friendship Lying Scare
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Eyes Food Man Nature Philosophy Season See
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Life Struggle
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
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Family Humor Myself Nation See
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Thinking Word
I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Appearance Laugh Love Myself

She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.

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