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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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