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it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
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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I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.
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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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I know that nothing is destructible things merely change forms.
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