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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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Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.
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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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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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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She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.
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You got to go there to know there.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.
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God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
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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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I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.
Zora Neale Hurston
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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