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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe.
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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...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.
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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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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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Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
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The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.
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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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When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.
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