Zora Neale Hurston quotes - page 4

There is something about poverty that smells like death. (Zora Neale Hurston)
I regret all of my books. View quote
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It costs you something to do good! View quote
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Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat! View quote
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No man may make another free. View quote
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People can be slave-ships in shoes. View quote
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump. View quote
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty. View quote
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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. View quote
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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens. View quote
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion. (Zora Neale Hurston)
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners. View quote
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous. View quote
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All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood. View quote
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say. View quote
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Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore. View quote
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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. View quote
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Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves. View quote
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Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt. View quote
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. View quote
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I am crazy about the idea of Democracy. I want to see how it feels. (Zora Neale Hurston)
I accept this idea of democracy. I am all for trying it out. View quote
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Research is formalized curiosity. View quote
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun." View quote
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Common danger made common friends. View quote
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