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Perhaps it is natural for the god of the poor to be akin to the god of the dead, for there is something about poverty that smells of death
— Zora Neale Hurston Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
Tags: religion, poverty

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People can be slave-ships in shoes.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Tags: people
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.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Tags: you, me, morning, friendship
Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
— Zora Neale Hurston
Tags: pray, cry, work
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Tags: something, like, poverty, death
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Tags: more, person, nothing, god
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