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Such as I am, I am a precious gift.
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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Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.
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You got to go there to know there.
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I was born in a Negro town.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
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every heart has its graveyard.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.
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All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.
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I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.
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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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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.
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It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.
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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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Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
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Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
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Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
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