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Other Quotes by 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.
- But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
- It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed…
- The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and…
- There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
- Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey…
- She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other…
- Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny…
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- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
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- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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