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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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The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet… From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.
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I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
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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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Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.
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When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.
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You heard me. You ain't blind.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.
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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I know that nothing is destructible things merely change forms.
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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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