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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
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If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?
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every heart has its graveyard.
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I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.
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No man may make another free.
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She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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When we sing the blues, we're singin' out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues.
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Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.
Zora Neale Hurston
But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
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Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
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You got to go there to know there.
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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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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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anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
Zora Neale Hurston
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Zora Neale Hurston
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
Zora Neale Hurston
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
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