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Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
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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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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.
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Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
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Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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