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 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...

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.

I regret all of my books.

I regret all of my books.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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.

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 man may make another free.

No man may make another free.

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...

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...

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

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

Gods always love the people who make em.

Gods always love the people who make em.

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...

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

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

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

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

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