There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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

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

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

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

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

Gods always love the people who make em.

Gods always love the people who make em.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

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...

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.

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.

No man may make another free.

No man may make another free.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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

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

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...