“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
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Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston)
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“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
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“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...”
“Gods always behave like the people who make them.”
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“Perhaps it is natural for the god of the poor to be akin to the god of the dead, for there is something about poverty that smells of death”
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“Looka heah, Tea Cake, if you ever go off from me and have a good time lak dat and then come back heah tellin' me how nice Ah is, Ah specks tuh kill yuh dead. You heah me?”
“Common danger made common friends.”
“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...”
“People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor.”
“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.”
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“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.”
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“Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.”
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“When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.”
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“Gods always behave like the people who make them.”
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“No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.”
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“It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.”
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“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.”
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“I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
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“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 individ...”
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“Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.”
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“When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.”
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