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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
God Ever Thing Nothing
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

Death Fear Misunderstanding
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Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.

Love Life Me God
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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.

Grown People Think Know
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You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.

Something Make You
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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

Life Down Branches
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
Human Make Nothing Them
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

Wish Man Distance Board
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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.

Worth Friend Trying Without
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.

Saving Never Had Man
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And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.

Easy Thinking Sympathy Black
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
Misty Head Full Doubt
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Mystery is the essence of divinity

Mystery Divinity Essence
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

Mortal Average Turn Different
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Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.

Look Through Years Days
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.

Yellow Yolk Sun Leg
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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.

Family Sense Nation Humour
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
Catch You Scared Lying
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

Marriage Love Dream Dead
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.

Will Fight Country
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie's ear. Doubt.

Friend Afternoon Cool Lover
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There is two things everybody got to find out for theirselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.

Love Live Everybody Thing
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
People Slave Ship
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No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Weep Busy World Knife
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Laid Egg Past
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One finds great comfort in good dinners

Comfort Dinner Great
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.

Night Dress Walking Egypt
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He Drifted off into sleep and Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

Love Soul Sleep Place
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For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of

Time Race Mind Mouth
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Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

Women Dream Truth Things
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Common danger made common friends
Common Danger Friends
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Every tub sits on its bottom.

Tub Sit
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Now, women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

Women Dream Truth Remember
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The varicolored cloud dust that the sun has stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees.

Cloud Sky Sun Dust
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But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.

Power Man Meet
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
Blood God Wine Flower
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
Soul Hiding Place
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She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair. The weight, the length, the glory was all there. She took careful stock of herself, then combed her hair and tied it back up ag

Tore Plentiful Stock Tied
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I would like just a little of her sunshine to soak into my soul. I would like that a lot.

Like Soul Sunshine
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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

Depend Eat God Chicken
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happened.

You Envious Heart Hope
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It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no

Me Power Being React
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...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.

Time Door Mark Foolishness
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Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.

Life Love Coward Mean
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Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
Morning Town Sun World
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.

Cake Sun Loving
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.

Life Elude Struggle
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.

Pitiful You Funny Quick
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

Pleasure Angry Deny Me
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So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.
Time
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