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Zora Neale Hurston: Mama exhorted her...

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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to jump at de sun. We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Source: Dust Tracks on a Road, 1941.
-- Zora Neale Hurston, (Jan 7 1903-1960), US dramatist, author; Her writings chronicled rural black life, e.g., Mules and Men, 1935.


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