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

Zora Neale Hurston

The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself
There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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Deep Live Love Philosophy
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
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
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
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Funny Quick Right
Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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Enjoyment Greatness Herself Life Suffering Tree
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Children Herself Opportunity
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
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
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
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
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
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.
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Friendship Live Morning 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.
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Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Be Yourself Herself Instagram Captions
Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Herself Live Season Spring

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