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

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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

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

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

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.

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...

Gods always love the people who make em.

Gods always love the people who make em.

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

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

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 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...

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

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...

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...

I regret all of my books.

I regret all of my books.

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...

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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.

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.

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.

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,...

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...