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I regret all of my books.

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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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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I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.
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Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.
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I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.
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