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" When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous. "
Zora Neale Hurston
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" Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. "
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" Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural. "
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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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" It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion. "
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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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" If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding. "
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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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" It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser. "
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" Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat! "
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" Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. "
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" Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. "
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" The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell. "
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