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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
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You got to go there to know there.
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Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
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It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
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I love myself when I am laughing.
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.
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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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You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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.
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The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.
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The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody toassociate with me who does not wish me near them?
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Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is.
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.
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It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.
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Distance is the only cure for certain diseases.
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There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in sickly air. People can be slaveships in shoes.
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Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.
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Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
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