Curiosity/brain

Famous quotes containing the words curiosity and/or brain:

    The Indian resists curiosity by a stony silence. The Negro offers a featherbed resistance. That is, we let the probe enter, but it never comes out. It gets smothered under a lot of laughter and pleasantries.
    Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “My mother is jelly-hearted and she has a brain of jelly:
    Sweet, quiver-soft, irrelevant. Not essential.
    Only a habit would cry if she should die....”
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)