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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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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The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
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But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.
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Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.
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want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.
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Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.
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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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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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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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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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Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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 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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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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