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

Zora Neale Hurston

Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
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
Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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God Live
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
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
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
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
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
I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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Death Experience Future Happiness Hope Life Mindset Myself Time Yourself
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Hide Inspirational
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Death Dream Herself Love Marriage Woman

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