3 December 2020 Zora Neale Hurston 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.
3 December 2020 Zora Neale Hurston 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.
3 December 2020 Zora Neale Hurston It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
3 December 2020 Zora Neale Hurston Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
3 December 2020 Zora Neale Hurston It’s a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
3 December 2020 Zora Neale Hurston 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.
3 December 2020 Zora Neale Hurston The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
3 December 2020 Zora Neale Hurston So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.