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Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.
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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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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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.
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Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
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I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.
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Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.
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It costs you something to do good!
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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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Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
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But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.
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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
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When we sing the blues, we're singin' out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues.
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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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All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.
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