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I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.
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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I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.
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Gods always love the people who make 'em.
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Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
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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 regret all of my books.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?
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Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
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Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is.
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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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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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