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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found 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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Zora N. Hurston
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.
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[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.
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And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.
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I love myself when I am laughing.
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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
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Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
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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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Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.
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anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!
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