Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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It costs you something to do good!
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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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.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.