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The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.
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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I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks.
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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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you can't beat me and my prayers!
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I regret all of my books.
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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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it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
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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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Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
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