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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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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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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.
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Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
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