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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
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Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!
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God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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