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Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.

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
Folklorist
Historian
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Zora N. Hurston
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Work
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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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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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.
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It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
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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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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background........Beside the waters of the Hudson I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am and the ebb but reveals me again. How It Feels to Be Colored Me
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Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
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Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance.
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Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.
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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
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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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