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The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody toassociate with me who does not wish me near them?
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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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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You heard me. You ain't blind.
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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.
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Gods always love the people who make 'em.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
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There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in sickly air. People can be slaveships in shoes.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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I know that nothing is destructible things merely change forms.
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You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.
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Silence is all the genius a fool has.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
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