It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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

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

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

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

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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

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

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.

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected...

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected...

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...

I regret all of my books.

I regret all of my books.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

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...

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...

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

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.

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...

Gods always love the people who make em.

Gods always love the people who make em.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

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,...

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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

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