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I was born in a Negro town.
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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God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.
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I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.
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When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.
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To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.
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If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.
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Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.
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Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
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Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
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Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.
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Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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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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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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Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.
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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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The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet… From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.
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truth is a letter from courage!
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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