Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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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...

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...

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...

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

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

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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.

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 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...

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...

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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,...

I regret all of my books.

I regret all of my books.

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

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

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.

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...