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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
Anthropologist
Civil Rights Advocate
Film Director
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Zora N. Hurston
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Slogans
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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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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
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Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!
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