It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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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.

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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 is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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,...

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.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink 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...

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

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

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.

I regret all of my books.

I regret all of my books.

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

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

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.

No man may make another free.

No man may make another free.