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You got to go there to know there.

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
Film Director
Folklorist
Historian
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Zora N. Hurston

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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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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.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.
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God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.
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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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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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We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.
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The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
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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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I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
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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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Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.
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