People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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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.

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...

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

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

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

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not...

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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 man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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,...

No man may make another free.

No man may make another free.