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.

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that...

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that...

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and...

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and...

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

It costs you something to do good!

It costs you something to do good!

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

Gods always love the people who make em.

Gods always love the people who make em.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they...

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they...

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its...

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its...

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes...

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes...

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not...

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not...

Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off...

Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off...

I regret all of my books.

I regret all of my books.

No man may make another free.

No man may make another free.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes...

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes...

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.