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you can't beat me and my prayers!
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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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every heart has its graveyard.
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It costs you something to do good!
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So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.
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Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
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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.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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I regret all of my books.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.
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Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.
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Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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People can be slave-ships in shoes.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!
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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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If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.
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To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.
Zora Neale Hurston
The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.
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