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

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.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

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 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...

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.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

No man may make another free.

No man may make another free.

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...

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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