"Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."
- Zora Neale Hurston
"I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the r..."
"Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships."
"When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. S..."
"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 and how they got the proof."
"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."
"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
"I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of d..."
"People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor."
"All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine em..."