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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
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So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.
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you can't beat me and my prayers!
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Such as I am, I am a precious gift.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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You got to go there to know there.
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Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.
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When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to.
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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.
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To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.
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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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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
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Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
Zora Neale Hurston
I know that nothing is destructible things merely change forms.
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