"You have no idea, sir, how difficult it……" — Zora Neale Hurston
"You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence."
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166 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston has 166 quotes on this site.
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Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
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A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people.…
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We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay…
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Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.
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There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry…
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Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole.…
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I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good…
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Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the…
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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
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If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.
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I regret all of my books.
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Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression…
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More Benevolence Quotes
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of…
— Aristotle
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between…
— Hans Bender
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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
— Mortimer Adler
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I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
— Richard Branson
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Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar…
— John Jay Chapman
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
— C.S. Lewis
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
— Samuel Johnson
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They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.
— Sun Tzu
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When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in…
— Sun Tzu
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Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be…
— Joseph Hall
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Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
— Karl Pearson
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Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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