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[Margaret Lee]

Hurston's "Jonah's Gourd Vine"  ...
--Margaret
 
      
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>> "Jonah's Vine Gourd" (Lippincott, 1934), by Zora Neale Hurston, who grew
>> up in Eatonville, Florida.  You can "Look Inside" a 1990 paperback version
>> on Amazon.com.
>>
>> In an argument at a church meeting, in response to someone telling her to
>> speak only when spoken to: "Ah aint got tuh do but two things - stay black
>> and die," Sister Berry snapped.
>>
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> I was less thorough than I could have been, not thinking that anyone else
> was going to be seriously interested in this. So, I simply chose the most
> easily-located, clear cite.
>
> She uses it in more than one place. At least one publication gives her the
> credit for the coining of the phrase.
>
> Youneverknow.
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
>
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