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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
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Zora N. Hurston

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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
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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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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
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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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Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.
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Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.
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No man may make another free.
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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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Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
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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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So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
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Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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...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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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.
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