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

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.

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

Zora Neale Hurston

World

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Love

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Zora Neale Hurston

Anger

Fear

Gods always love the people who make em.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Zora Neale Hurston

People

Gods

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Gods

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.

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

Race

Welfare

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

Zora Neale Hurston

God

Nothing

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Man

Ships

I regret all of my books.

Zora Neale Hurston

Books

Regret

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Zora Neale Hurston

People

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.