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You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.
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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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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Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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No man may make another free.
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If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.
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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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I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.
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It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.
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[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.
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Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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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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Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
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anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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.
Zora Neale Hurston
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
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