A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
Zora Neale Hurston
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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 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
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
Zora Neale Hurston
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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.
Zora Neale Hurston
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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