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Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.
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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They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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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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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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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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Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.
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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background........Beside the waters of the Hudson I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am and the ebb but reveals me again. How It Feels to Be Colored Me
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Gods always love the people who make 'em.
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Africa has her mouth on Moses.
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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.
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I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.
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Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the sun with his seven horns of flame is the father of life.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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