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It was the meanest moment of eternity.

Zora Neale Hurston

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 made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Mindset Myself
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Kill Life
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Hide Place Soul
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Different Love Sea
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Herself Man Save See
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Grief Herself
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Myself World
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Friendship Live Morning Myself
Truth is a letter from courage!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Courage Truth
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

God Person
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Hurt Revenge World
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Forever Right
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Black Man Ocean Place Power See

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

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