It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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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 would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the...

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the...

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

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

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

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

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.

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

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

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear...

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear...

I regret all of my books.

I regret all of my books.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it...

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it...

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

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...

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then...

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then...

No man may make another free.

No man may make another free.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable...

I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable...

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering...

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering...