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There's two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living. Now, love is like the sea. It's a moving thing. And it's different on every shore. And living... well... There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Zora Neale Hurston

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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
Anthropologist
Civil Rights Advocate
Film Director
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Zora N. Hurston
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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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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get 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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Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
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Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
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I know that nothing is destructible things merely change forms.
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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.
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I was born in a Negro town.
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There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in sickly air. People can be slaveships in shoes.
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You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
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Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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