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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
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Zora N. Hurston
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You got to go there to know there.
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it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Every tub sits on its bottom.
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Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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truth is a letter from courage!
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No man may make another free.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.
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You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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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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The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.
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Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.
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