It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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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 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...

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

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

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,...

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.

I regret all of my books.

I regret all of my books.

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.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

No man may make another free.

No man may make another free.

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.

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.

Gods always love the people who make em.

Gods always love the people who make em.

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.