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

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...

No man may make another free.

No man may make another free.

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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 costs you something to do good!

It costs you something to do good!

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Poverty is taking your children to the hospital and spending the whole day waiting with...

Poverty is taking your children to the hospital and spending the whole day waiting with...

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of...

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of...