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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.
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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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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
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Distance is the only cure for certain diseases.
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Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.
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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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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
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Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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truth is a letter from courage!
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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