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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
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Zora N. Hurston
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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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You heard me. You ain't blind.
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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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Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.
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Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.
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God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.
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If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.
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I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.
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It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
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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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want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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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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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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The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
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Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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