If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

Topics: Abuse Quotes

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...

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...

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 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.

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.

It costs you something to do good!

It costs you something to do good!

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

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

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

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 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...

Gods always love the people who make em.

Gods always love the people who make em.

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...

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.