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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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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.
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I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.
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I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
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When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.
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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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Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.
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It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no.
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It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.
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You got to go there to know there.
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Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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I know that nothing is destructible things merely change forms.
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