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Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
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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Zora N. Hurston
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.
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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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Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.
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