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

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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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...

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...

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...

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

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.

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

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

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.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

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

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