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want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.
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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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Such as I am, I am a precious gift.
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Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.
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Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is.
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Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the sun with his seven horns of flame is the father of life.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.
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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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Africa has her mouth on Moses.
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Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.
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Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
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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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All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.
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Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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