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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.
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truth is a letter from courage!
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Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.
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The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
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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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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
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I love myself when I am laughing.
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I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.
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To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.
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And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.
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Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.
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Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.
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I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
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When we sing the blues, we're singin' out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues.
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Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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