A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Zora Neale Hurston
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About Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, an autobiography, ethnographies, and many essays. Some of her work, namely Tell My Horse (1937), explored ethnomusicological methods of s…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Zora Neale HurstonThe man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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 you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.