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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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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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Africa has her mouth on Moses.
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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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Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.
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That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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 want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.
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It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.
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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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Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
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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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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
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