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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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...

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

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...

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

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

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

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...

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think,...

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think,...

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.

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

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

Gods always love the people who make em.

Gods always love the people who make em.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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...

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...

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...

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...