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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
Anthropologist
Civil Rights Advocate
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Zora N. Hurston
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Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.
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Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.
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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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