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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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All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.
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I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.
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Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.
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Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
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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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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony.
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Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.
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I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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