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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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If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony.
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it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
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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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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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And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.
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But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background........Beside the waters of the Hudson I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am and the ebb but reveals me again. How It Feels to Be Colored Me
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Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
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The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.
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want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.
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Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
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A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
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It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.
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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.
Zora Neale Hurston
Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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