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Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.
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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There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in sickly air. People can be slaveships in shoes.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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you can't beat me and my prayers!
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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
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It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
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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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The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.
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Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet… From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.
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Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.
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Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.
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I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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