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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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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When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.
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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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It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
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For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.
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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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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.
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But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.
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You heard me. You ain't blind.
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Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
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Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
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