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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.
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 am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.
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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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And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.
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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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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
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