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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 very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.
Zora Neale Hurston
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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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
Zora Neale Hurston
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.
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Silence is all the genius a fool has.
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Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
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I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
Zora Neale Hurston
It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no.
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
Zora Neale Hurston
It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.
Zora Neale Hurston
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston
Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.
Zora Neale Hurston
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
Zora Neale Hurston