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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. - Zora Neale Hurston

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

Learning, Curiosity, Purpose

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. - Zora Neale Hurston

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

Always, Gardening, Like

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you. - Zora Neale Hurston

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you. Zora Neale Hurston

How, Horizon, Still

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. Zora Neale Hurston

Deny, Against, Pleasure

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. Zora Neale Hurston

Anger, Broom, Beast

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

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

Egg, Laid, Shell

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. - Zora Neale Hurston

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Zora Neale Hurston

Love, Hiding, Soul

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. Zora Neale Hurston

Internal, Everybody, Nature

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. - Zora Neale Hurston

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. Zora Neale Hurston

Answer, Ask, Questions

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. - Zora Neale Hurston

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

Knife, Oyster, World

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

Unless, Use, Understand

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens. Zora Neale Hurston

Chickens, Depending, Anybody

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. Zora Neale Hurston

Every Opportunity, Might

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it. Zora Neale Hurston

Hide, Show, Got

No man may make another free. Zora Neale Hurston

May, Another, Man

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. Zora Neale Hurston

Doing, Other, Abuse

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it. - Zora Neale Hurston

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

Big, Distance, Shrink

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

Game, Everybody, Where

Gods always behave like the people who make them. Zora Neale Hurston

Always, Behave, Like

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing. Zora Neale Hurston

Funny Thing, Nerve, Nothing

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

Love, Parachute, Fall

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. Zora Neale Hurston

Friendship, Like, Cream

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

Unconscious, Cruelty, Except

I regret all of my books. Zora Neale Hurston

People can be slave-ships in shoes. Zora Neale Hurston

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. Zora Neale Hurston

Offers, United States

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