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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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Zora N. Hurston
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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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I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.
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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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Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
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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 seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
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You heard me. You ain't blind.
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