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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
Anthropologist
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Zora N. Hurston
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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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They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.
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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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want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Such as I am, I am a precious gift.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.
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The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.
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I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.
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