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

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That...

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That...

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

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...

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

It costs you something to do good!

It costs you something to do good!

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.

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...

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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...

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

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...

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

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

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

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

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected...

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected...