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Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
Anthropologist
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Zora N. Hurston
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Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Gods always love the people who make 'em.
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So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.
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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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People can be slave-ships in shoes.
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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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You heard me. You ain't blind.
Zora Neale Hurston
...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.
Zora Neale Hurston
Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.
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So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.
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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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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
Zora Neale Hurston
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
Zora Neale Hurston
When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
Zora Neale Hurston
Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
Zora Neale Hurston
Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
Zora Neale Hurston
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
Zora Neale Hurston
If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.
Zora Neale Hurston
Africa has her mouth on Moses.
Zora Neale Hurston
