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When the mother goat breaks into the yam store her kid watches her.
African Proverbs
When
Break
Into
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Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that remains constant in his hands.
African Proverbs
Love
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If the elders leave you a legacy of dignified language, you do not abandon it and speak childish language.
African Proverbs
Leave
Abandon
Speak
You
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A person with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace.
African Proverbs
Person
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He is like a drum which makes a lot of noise but is hollow inside.
African Proverbs
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Drum
Noise
Inside
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African Proverbs
Love
Taste
When
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When the food is cooked there is no need to wait before eating it.
African Proverbs
When
Food
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Baboons do not go far from the place of their birth.
African Proverbs
Not
From
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Birth
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The chameleon looks in all directions before moving
African Proverbs
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All
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Little by little the bird builds its nest.
African Proverbs
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A brave man dies once, a coward a thousand times.
African Proverbs
Brave
Once
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Man
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Only someone else can scratch your back.
African Proverbs
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Back
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Rich people sometimes eat bad food.
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Bad
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People
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He who refuses to obey cannot command.
African Proverbs
Who
Obey
Command
Refuse
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors we borrow it from our children.
African Proverbs
Not
Earth
Borrow
Our
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He who doesn’t clean his mouth before breakfast always complains that the food is sour.
African Proverbs
Sour
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You cannot climb to the mountain top without crushing some weeds with your feet
African Proverbs
Climb
Top
Seed
Some
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Even the best dancer on the stage must retire sometime.
African Proverbs
Even
Best
Stage
Retire
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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.
Zora Neale Hurston
Easy
Thinking
Sympathy
Black
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Zora Neale Hurston
Misty
Head
Full
Doubt
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African Proverbs
Moon
Full
More
Shine
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Those who are born on top of the anthill take a short time to grow tall.
African Proverbs
Born
Top
Short
Grow
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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.
Zora Neale Hurston
Mortal
Average
Turn
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If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building, or do you change the nail?
African Proverbs
House
Stop
Nail
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It is not the cook’s fault when the cassava turns out to be hard and tasteless.
African Proverbs
Cook
Fault
Hard
When
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Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.
Zora Neale Hurston
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.
Zora Neale Hurston
Yellow
Yolk
Sun
Leg
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No matter how big a child is, he cannot deny that he was once carried on the back of a woman.
African Proverbs
Matter
Deny
Once
Back
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
Zora Neale Hurston
Marriage
Love
Dream
Dead
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
Zora Neale Hurston
Will
Fight
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie's ear. Doubt.
Zora Neale Hurston
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.
Zora Neale Hurston
Love
Live
Everybody
Thing
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Zora Neale Hurston
People
Slave
Ship
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No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston
Weep
Busy
World
Knife
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
Zora Neale Hurston
Laid
Egg
Past
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What is bad luck for one man is good luck for another.
African Proverbs
Bad
Luck
One
Good
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
Zora Neale Hurston
Night
Dress
Walking
Egypt
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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
Zora Neale Hurston
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.
Zora Neale Hurston
Women
Dream
Truth
Things
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Every tub sits on its bottom.
Zora Neale Hurston
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.
Zora Neale Hurston
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.
Zora Neale Hurston
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.
Zora Neale Hurston
Power
Man
Meet
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Zora Neale Hurston
Blood
God
Wine
Flower
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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
Zora Neale Hurston
Tore
Plentiful
Stock
Tied
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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
Zora Neale Hurston
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.
Zora Neale Hurston
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
Zora Neale Hurston
Me
Power
Being
React
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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.
Zora Neale Hurston
Life
Love
Coward
Mean
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
Zora Neale Hurston
Life
Elude
Struggle
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