I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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

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

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...

No man may make another free.

No man may make another free.

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...

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

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

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...

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,...

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.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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

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

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 seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear...

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear...

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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...

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.

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.

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...

In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city...

In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city...

A little water is a sea to an ant

A little water is a sea to an ant