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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
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Zora N. Hurston
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She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.
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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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The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody toassociate with me who does not wish me near them?
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All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.
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So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.
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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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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.
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Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.
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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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I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
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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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Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.
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The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.
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