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I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Zora Neale Hurston

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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
Anthropologist
Civil Rights Advocate
Film Director
Folklorist
Historian
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Zora N. Hurston
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Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.
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Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Gods always love the people who make 'em.
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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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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
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Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.
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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.
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Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.
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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
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Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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 must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.
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The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet… From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.
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