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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
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Zora N. Hurston
Worry
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Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.
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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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Every tub sits on its bottom.
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All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.
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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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Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.
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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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I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.
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I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in sickly air. People can be slaveships in shoes.
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