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Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.
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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Affection
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Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.
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