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There is something about poverty that smells like death.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
Anthropologist
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Zora N. Hurston
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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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A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.
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you can't beat me and my prayers!
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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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It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.
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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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Silence is all the genius a fool has.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.
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If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?
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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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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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