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?

—Zora Neale Hurston

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About Zora Neale Hurston

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Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published...

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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.

—Zora Neale Hurston

Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

—Zora Neale Hurston

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

—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.

—Zora Neale Hurston

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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

—John Burroughs

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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.

—Melody Beattie

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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly; feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

—Mary Roberts Rinehart

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