I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have...

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have...

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

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.

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...

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...

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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.

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

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

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...

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 regret all of my books.

I regret all of my books.

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

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...

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.