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• A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

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  Distance, Insightful, Bigs

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• I love myself when I am laughing.

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  Love, Laughing, I Love Myself

  Zora Neale Hurston (2009). “Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel”, p.23, Harper Collins

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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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  Morning, Flower, Air

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.41, University of Illinois Press

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• It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.

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  Hope, Hopeful, Wish

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.189, University of Illinois Press

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• But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.

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  Hate, Men, Way

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.59, University of Illinois Press

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• Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance.

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  Moving, Men, Comfort

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

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• I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

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  Love, Fall, Made

  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.73, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.

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  Shelves

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.87, University of Illinois Press

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• Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

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  Kissing, Tree, Singing

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.16, University of Illinois Press

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• it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!

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  Laughter, Hate, Tears

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• Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.

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  Light, Ducks, Diversity

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

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• Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.

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  Self, Dying

  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.193, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• You heard me. You ain't blind.

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  Blind, Heard

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• No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

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  African American, Words Of Wisdom, Matter

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.109, University of Illinois Press

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• She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.

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  People, Faces, Wanted

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.106, University of Illinois Press

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• To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.

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  Weakness, Odor, Arms

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• 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.

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  Friendship, Ocean, Limits

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• want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.

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  Worry, Half, Want

  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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• Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.

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  Secret, Curiosity, Wish

  Zora Neale Hurston, Cheryl A. Wall (1997). “Sweat”, p.43, Rutgers University Press

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

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  Friendship, Good Morning, Coffee

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

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• The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.

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  Morning, Hero, Men

  Zora Neale Hurston, Chic Street Man, George C. Wolfe (2000). “Spunk: Three Tales”, p.42, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.

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  Class, African American, Curiosity

  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.169, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.

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  Individual, Persons, Urges

  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.67, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background........Beside the waters of the Hudson" I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again." How It Feels to Be Colored Me

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  Dark, Race, Rocks

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• Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.

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  Mean, Boys, Laughing

  Zora Neale Hurston (2002). “Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters”, Doubleday Books

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