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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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear...

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear...

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

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...

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

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...

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...

Gods always love the people who make em.

Gods always love the people who make em.

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

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

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

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 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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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

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