The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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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 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.

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...

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.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

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...

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then...

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then...

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it...

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody 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...

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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...

No man may make another free.

No man may make another free.

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's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they...

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they...

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 regret all of my books.

I regret all of my books.

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

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

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...