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Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.
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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When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.
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But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
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Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
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want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.
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The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.
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I was born in a Negro town.
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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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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
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To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.
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The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.
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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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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.
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Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.
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