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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
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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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We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.
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I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks.
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[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.
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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.
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Silence is all the genius a fool has.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
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Every tub sits on its bottom.
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