Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
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Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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A 'diet' is simply an individual's eating regimen: it doesn't have to mean the restrictive plan we've come to associate this word with.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.
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I'm one of those people that, if I'm in the country, I will have a look inside an old church.
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People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
