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

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

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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

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

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...

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

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

It costs you something to do good!

It costs you something to do good!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

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...

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

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,...

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

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

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...

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...

No man may make another free.

No man may make another free.