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People Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
- A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is…
- There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the…
- It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
- It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
- People can be slave-ships in shoes.
- It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
- It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
- Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
- The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
- Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at…
- Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where…
- 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…
- It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable…
- When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it…
- ...she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see...
- 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…
- Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
- Gods always love the people who make em.
- There is something about poverty that smells like death.Dead dreams dropping off theheart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around thefeet; impulses smothered…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle