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No man may make another free.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Zora Neale Hurston

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

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.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

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.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Zora Neale Hurston

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

Zora Neale Hurston

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

Zora Neale Hurston