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

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

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.

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

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

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...

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

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's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they...

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they...

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 man may make another free.

No man may make another free.

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

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

Gods always love the people who make em.

Gods always love the people who make em.

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...

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.

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.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All this happens because man is love and is there is a great love between...

All this happens because man is love and is there is a great love between...

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most...

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most...

Dear children, lets not merely say that we love each other; let us show the...

Dear children, lets not merely say that we love each other; let us show the...