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

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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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...

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...

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

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

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

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

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

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...

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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...

Gods always love the people who make em.

Gods always love the people who make em.

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

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

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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...

No man may make another free.

No man may make another free.