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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.
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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.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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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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want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.
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The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.
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truth is a letter from courage!
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.
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it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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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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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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Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.
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The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
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