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

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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

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

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

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

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

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, 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...

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...

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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 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 costs you something to do good!

It costs you something to do good!

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...

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...

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

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

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.