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No man may make another free.

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
Folklorist
Historian
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Zora N. Hurston
Men
Freedom
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Another
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I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.
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If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.
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