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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
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I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks.
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When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.
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God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.
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Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.
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Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background........Beside the waters of the Hudson I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am and the ebb but reveals me again. How It Feels to Be Colored Me
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering
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Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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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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Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.
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I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
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I was born in a Negro town.
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To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.
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I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.
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