Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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No man may make another free.
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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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I regret all of my books.
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
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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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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
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Gods always love the people who make em.
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There is something about poverty that smells like death.
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People can be slave-ships in shoes.
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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
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It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
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Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
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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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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.