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Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.
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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It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no.
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If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.
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She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
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Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.
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I know that nothing is destructible things merely change forms.
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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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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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Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.
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