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I know that nothing is destructible things merely change forms.
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
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Zora N. Hurston
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Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
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But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to.
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I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.
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That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.
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I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.
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Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.
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Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.
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Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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