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anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
Anthropologist
Civil Rights Advocate
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Zora N. Hurston
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She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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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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It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
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To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.
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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.
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Every tub sits on its bottom.
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Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet… From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.
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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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I am the kind of a woman that likes to move on mentally from point to point, and I like for my man to be there way ahead of me. Then if he is strong and honest, it goes on from there. Good looks are not essential, just extra added attraction.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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