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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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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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Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.
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anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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I know that nothing is destructible things merely change forms.
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Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
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I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.
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Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
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you can't beat me and my prayers!
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
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If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony.
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Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?
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You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.
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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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