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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
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Zora N. Hurston
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I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.
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Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
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Distance is the only cure for certain diseases.
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I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.
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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
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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 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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Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.
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Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.
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It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.
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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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I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.
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The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
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You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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