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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
Anthropologist
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Zora N. Hurston
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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There is something about poverty that smells like death.
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Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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Africa has her mouth on Moses.
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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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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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