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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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Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.
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Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.
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I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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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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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.
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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston
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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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It costs you something to do good!
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Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.
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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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Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.
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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
Zora Neale Hurston
want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
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