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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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I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.
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Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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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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When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.
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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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The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
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I love myself when I am laughing.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
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you can't beat me and my prayers!
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