Zora Neale Hurston

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

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.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

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

Gods always love the people who make em.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

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

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

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

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

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