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I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. . . . I do not weep at the world -- I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
-- 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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