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.

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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

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

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

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 matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think,...

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think,...

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...

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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...

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

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

It costs you something to do good!

It costs you something to do good!

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

It's easy to see, hard to foresee.

It's easy to see, hard to foresee.

My children will never know what its like, not being able to see a movie...

My children will never know what its like, not being able to see a movie...

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible...

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible...