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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. | Zora Neale Hurston | [
"love"
] |
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. | Zora Neale Hurston | [
"courage"
] |
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams. | Zora Neale Hurston | [
"dreams"
] |
There is something about poverty that smells like death. | Zora Neale Hurston | [
"death"
] |
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. | Zora Neale Hurston | [
"nature"
] |
It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual. | Zora Neale Hurston | [
"nature"
] |
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. | Zora Neale Hurston | [
"friendship",
"morning"
] |
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. | Zora Neale Hurston | [
"gardening"
] |
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump. | Zora Neale Hurston | [
"love"
] |
It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing. | Zora Neale Hurston | [
"funny"
] |
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell. | Zora Neale Hurston | [
"future"
] |
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 | [
"good"
] |
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it. | Zora Neale Hurston | [
"time"
] |
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. | Zora Neale Hurston | [
"anger",
"fear"
] |
I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire? | Zsa Zsa Gabor | [
"valentinesday"
] |
When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument. | Zsa Zsa Gabor | [
"alone"
] |
The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare. | Zsa Zsa Gabor | [
"women"
] |
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. | Zsa Zsa Gabor | [
"love",
"marriage"
] |
To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness. | Zsa Zsa Gabor | [
"strength"
] |
He taught me housekeeping when I divorce I keep the house. | Zsa Zsa Gabor | [
"funny"
] |
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. | Zsa Zsa Gabor | [
"love",
"marriage"
] |
One of my theories is that men love with their eyes women love with their ears. | Zsa Zsa Gabor | [
"women"
] |