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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
Anthropologist
Civil Rights Advocate
Film Director
Folklorist
Historian
Journalist
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Zora N. Hurston
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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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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.
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Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.
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Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance.
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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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