Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Gods always love the people who make em.

Gods always love the people who make em.

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

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

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 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.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

I regret all of my books.

I regret all of my books.

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...