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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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Civil Rights Advocate
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Zora N. Hurston
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
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Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
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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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it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
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