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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
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Zora N. Hurston
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It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.
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I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
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Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
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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's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering
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And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.
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Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.
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Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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