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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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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When we sing the blues, we're singin' out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
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Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.
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It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no.
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Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.
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You got to go there to know there.
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Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.
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It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.
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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
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When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to.
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To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.
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Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.
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But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.
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