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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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If you damage the character of another, you damage your own.
African Proverbs
You
Another
Own
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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
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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
Zora Neale Hurston
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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
Different
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When a fish rots, the head stinks first
African Proverbs
Fish
Rot
Head
First
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An empty pot makes the loudest noise.
African Proverbs
Pot
Noise
Empty
The
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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
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If a stranger comes to stay with you, do not forget when you lay aside his weapons that he is hungry.
African Proverbs
Come
Stay
Lay
Forget
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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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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.
Zora Neale Hurston
Family
Sense
Nation
Humour
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Zora Neale Hurston
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.
Zora Neale Hurston
Marriage
Love
Dream
Dead
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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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When the lion cannot find meat, it eats grass.
African Proverbs
When
Lion
Meat
Grass
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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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When a woman is hungry, she says, Roast something for the children that they might eat.
African Proverbs
When
Hungry
Eat
They
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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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One
Seed
Have
Give
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A king’s child is a slave elsewhere.
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Slave
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He who loves the vase loves also what is inside.
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Who
Love
Vase
Inside
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners
Zora Neale Hurston
Comfort
Dinner
Great
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
Zora Neale Hurston
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.
Zora Neale Hurston
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
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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Zora Neale Hurston
Common
Danger
Friends
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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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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
Zora Neale Hurston
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.
Zora Neale Hurston
Like
Soul
Sunshine
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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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...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.
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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.
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Life
Love
Coward
Mean
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Morning
Town
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World
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