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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
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Zora N. Hurston
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They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.
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It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.
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Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.
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Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
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Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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you can't beat me and my prayers!
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Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.
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Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!
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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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When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.
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Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
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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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