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• I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Thinking, Wish, Making Money

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• There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

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  Inspirational, Humans, Human Beings

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.38, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• [Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

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  Long, Made, Quotations

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Go!" I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.

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  Depression, Daughter, Struggle

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• Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.

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  Opportunity, Virtue

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.64, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

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  Soul, Horizon, World

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.231, University of Illinois Press

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• I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.

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  Prayer, Responsibility, Men

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• I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

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  Mind, Want, Busy

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• Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.

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  Black, Granddaughter, Elbows

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.153, Feminist Press at CUNY

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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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  Book, Heaven, World

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.93, University of Illinois Press

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• Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.

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  Made, Persons

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was a Negro. Must I not also go hang my head in shame when a member of my race does something execrable? . . . The white race did not go into a laboratory and invent incandescent light. That was Edison. . . . If you are under the impression that every white man is an Edison, just look around a bit.

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  Men, White Man, Light

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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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  People, Confusion, Weak Spots

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• I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!

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  Girl, Baby, Attitude

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• Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.

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  Night, Two, Daylight

  Zora Neale Hurston (1939). “Moses: Man of the Mountain”

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• Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.

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  I Can

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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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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  Gratitude, Grateful, Law

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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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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  Moon, Amber, Earth

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.120, University of Illinois Press

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• Distance is the only cure for certain diseases.

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  Distance, Disease, Cures

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

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  Love, Comfort, Dinner

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• every heart has its graveyard.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Heart, Sorrow, Graveyard

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• You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.

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  Ideas, Charity, Victim

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• I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.

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  Race, Feminine, Beads

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.155, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

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  Oysters, Knives, Black History

  World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

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• you can't beat me and my prayers!

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  Prayer, Beats

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