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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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You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.
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People can be slave-ships in shoes.
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you can't beat me and my prayers!
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.
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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
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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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I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody toassociate with me who does not wish me near them?
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Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
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You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.
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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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God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.
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