The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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

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

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

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

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

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.

I regret all of my books.

I regret all of my books.

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.

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

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

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 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...

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.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it...

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

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.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

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...

Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off...

Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off...

Keep your head above water

Keep your head above water

Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.