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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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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.
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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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To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.
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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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Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.
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Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
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I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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