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Zora Neale Hurston

“Zora, why do you think dese li'l slim women was put on earth?"

"Couldn't tell you to save my life."

"Well, dese slim ones was put here to beautify de world."

"De big ones, musta been put here for de same reason."

"Ah, naw, Zora. Ah don't agree wid you there."

"Well then, what was they put here for?"

"To show dese slim girls how far they kin stretch without bustin'.”

Zora Neale Hurston, Mules and Men
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