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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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...

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

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 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.

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

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

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 costs you something to do good!

It costs you something to do good!

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...

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

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

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...

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.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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...

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.

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

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

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...