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I love myself when I am laughing.

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
Folklorist
Historian
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Zora N. Hurston
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.
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It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.
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[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
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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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It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.
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