Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. No man may make another free. No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you. Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural. People can be slave-ships in shoes. Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. 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. Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat! The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty. The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell. There are years that ask questions and years that answer. There is something about poverty that smells like death. Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it. Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous. When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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