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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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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.
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It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.
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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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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
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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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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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every heart has its graveyard.
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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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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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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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