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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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There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in sickly air. People can be slaveships in shoes.
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I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.
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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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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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 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.
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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
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Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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No man may make another free.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.
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