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But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.
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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All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.
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Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.
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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
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I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.
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I am the kind of a woman that likes to move on mentally from point to point, and I like for my man to be there way ahead of me. Then if he is strong and honest, it goes on from there. Good looks are not essential, just extra added attraction.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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Such as I am, I am a precious gift.
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People can be slave-ships in shoes.
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Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
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Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
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