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

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

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.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

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...

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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.

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

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

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes...

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes...

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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...