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

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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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 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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

It costs you something to do good!

It costs you something to do good!

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...

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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.

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...

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

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

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

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 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...

I regret all of my books.

I regret all of my books.

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

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.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.