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God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.
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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I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.
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Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Gods always love the people who make 'em.
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It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.
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I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.
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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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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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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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Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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I regret all of my books.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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every heart has its graveyard.
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