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Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
Anthropologist
Civil Rights Advocate
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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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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.
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...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.
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Such as I am, I am a precious gift.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.
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I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.
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The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet… From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.
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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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