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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for 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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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 do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.
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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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So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.
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Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
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You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.
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The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.
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Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.
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The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
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Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.
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Every tub sits on its bottom.
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