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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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Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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I regret all of my books.
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I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
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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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anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed 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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Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance.
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Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
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Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.
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