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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
Civil Rights Advocate
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Zora N. Hurston
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For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
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Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
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truth is a letter from courage!
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People can be slave-ships in shoes.
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The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet… From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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you can't beat me and my prayers!
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.
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Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.
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Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.
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