Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. Zora Neale Hurston More Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston More Quotes From Zora Neale Hurston There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food. Zora Neale Hurston eye men looks That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue. Zora Neale Hurston prejudice names people Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly. Zora Neale Hurston women dream life Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue. Zora Neale Hurston virtue opportunity Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. Zora Neale Hurston mothers-day mom children Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back. Zora Neale Hurston wisdom donkey book I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump. Zora Neale Hurston made love fall Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it. Zora Neale Hurston talent shows graduation You got to go there to know there. Zora Neale Hurston knows Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started. Zora Neale Hurston nobody-knows magic writing Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat! Zora Neale Hurston sweat cry praying People can be slave-ships in shoes. Zora Neale Hurston slave-ships shoes people They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God. Zora Neale Hurston staring eye dark Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was a Negro. Must I not also go hang my head in shame when a member of my race does something execrable? . . . The white race did not go into a laboratory and invent incandescent light. That was Edison. . . . If you are under the impression that every white man is an Edison, just look around a bit. Zora Neale Hurston white-man light men 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 doing-things-for-others abuse feelings Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see. Zora Neale Hurston horizon soul world I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people! Zora Neale Hurston girl attitude baby Gods always behave like the people who make them. Zora Neale Hurston atheist god motivational It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion. Zora Neale Hurston weak-spots confusion people 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 always seems divine--hence, religion. People need religion because the great masses fear life and its consequences. Its responsibilities weigh heavy. Feeling a weakness in the face of great forces, men seek an alliance with omnipotence to bolster up their feeling of weakness, even though the omnipotence they rely upon is a creature of their own minds. It gives them a feeling of security. Zora Neale Hurston omnipotence responsibility men
