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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston
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American
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Dramatist
January 7
, 1891 -
January 28
, 1960
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston
Learning
,
Curiosity
,
Purpose
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
Zora Neale Hurston
Horizon
,
How
,
Still
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston
Gardening
,
Always
,
Like
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
Zora Neale Hurston
Egg
,
Shell
,
Laid
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston
Anger
,
Beast
,
Broom
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
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston
Questions
,
Answer
,
Ask
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
Love
,
Soul
,
Hiding
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
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Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
Zora Neale Hurston
Hide
,
Show
,
Got
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston
World
,
Knife
,
Oyster
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
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
Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
Zora Neale Hurston
Work
,
Cry
,
Sweat
No man may make another free.
Zora Neale Hurston
Man
,
May
,
Another
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
Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
Zora Neale Hurston
Chickens
,
Anybody
,
Depending
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
Zora Neale Hurston
World
,
Dream
,
See
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
Zora Neale Hurston
Love
,
Fall
,
Parachute
I regret all of my books.
Zora Neale Hurston
Regret
,
Books
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
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
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
Zora Neale Hurston
Game
,
Everybody
,
Where
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
Zora Neale Hurston
Natural
,
Same
,
Ever
It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
Zora Neale Hurston
Understand
,
Use
,
Unless
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