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All Quotes by author - Zora Neale Hurston
" Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens. "
Else
Chickens
Gods
" A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it. "
Big
Mighty
Distance
" But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem. "
Welfare
Problem
Think
" Gods always behave like the people who make them. "
People
Who
Like
" Gods always love the people who make em. "
People
Who
Make
" Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. "
Fear
Grab
Drive
" I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump. "
Parachute
Fall
Jump
" I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. "
Busy
World
Too
" 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. "
Want
Doing
Abuse
" 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. "
Kitchen
Sword
Hands
" I regret all of my books. "
Regret
Books
" It costs you something to do good! "
You
Costs
Something
" It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams. "
World
Blessings
Dreams
" It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing. "
Live
Losing
People
" It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser. "
Seems
Fighting
Loser
" 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. "
Morning
Me
Coffee
" It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say. "
Understand
People
You
" It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion. "
Confusion
Nation
People
" It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual. "
Go
Like
Nature
" Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. "
Find
Impress
Love
" Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. "
Out
Place
Soul
" 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. "
Sun
Jump
Children
" No man may make another free. "
Man
May
Make
" No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you. "
You
Horizon
Way
" Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural. "
Person
Natural
More
" People can be slave-ships in shoes. "
Shoes
People
" Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. "
Research
Curiosity
Learning
" Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. "
Board
Distance
Man
" 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. "
Me
Angry
Company
" So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. "
Brother
Laughter
Black
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