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

Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

American - Dramatist January 7, 1891 - January 28, 1960

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, Purpose, Curiosity

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

Horizon, Still, How

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

Gardening, Always, Like

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

World, Knife, Oyster

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

Questions, Ask, Answer

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, Abuse, Other

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

Pleasure, Against, Deny

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, Shell, Laid

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, Soul, Hiding

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

Anger, Beast, Broom

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

Always, Like, Behave

There is something about poverty that smells like death. Zora Neale Hurston

Death, Like, Smells

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

Distance, Big, Shrink

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

Wish, Distance, Ships

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

Hide, Show, Got

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem. Zora Neale Hurston

Think, Race, Other

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

Understand, Unless, Use

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

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

Might, Every Opportunity

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

Nature, Everybody, Internal

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands. Zora Neale Hurston

Hands, Been, Harp

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

Nothing, Funny Thing, Nerve

I regret all of my books. Zora Neale Hurston

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

Chickens, Anybody, Depending

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion. Zora Neale Hurston

Nation, Within, Large

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

Cruelty, Unconscious, Except

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