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Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

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.

Zora Neale Hurston

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 7, 1891 - January 28, 1960

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Angry Me Feel Sometimes Beyond How

I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.

Jill Scott

Mother Home Child Electricity She

I have no expectations. I just want to better myself.

Jessica McNamee

Myself Expectations Better Want Just

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

John Adams

Great War Guilt Unnecessary

Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work.

John Engler

Work Employees Doing Hurdles Despite

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

John Maeda

Together Planning Someone Go Whom

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

Robert Kennedy

Opportunity World Wish Difficult Us

I want to be surprised by life... I think that's more interesting.

Robert Lepage

Life Think Interesting Want More

You just don't go out when you're over 55 years of age, have a colossal failure, and expect to find work in your field again.

Roger Ailes

Work Failure Age You Find Go

Before I met David Bowie, I was very nervous. I thought, 'Here comes the Thin White Duke, Ziggy Stardust. How will I ever communicate with him?'

Rory MacLean

Thought White Nervous Will Him Here

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

Rowan Atkinson

Funny Age Child Think You Person

I would like to call India a gold-mine of art. It's really the richest in the world.

Mary McFadden

Art World India Call Would Like

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people. In offices, applying for jobs, waiting to see a dentist, waiting in a restaurant for friends, many such places.

Louis L'Amour

Time Waiting People Restaurant Year