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Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
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
Film Director
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Zora N. Hurston
Virtue
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Power
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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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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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 don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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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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It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.
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