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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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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I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.
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Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
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Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.
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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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