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I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
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I love myself when I am laughing.
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want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.
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All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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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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Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!
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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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It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.
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Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.
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God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.
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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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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
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