It costs you something to do good!

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.

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.

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

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

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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,...

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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.

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.

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

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