A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
Zora Neale Hurston

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
Zora Neale Hurston

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
Zora Neale Hurston

Gods always behave like the people who make them.
Zora Neale Hurston

Gods always love the people who make em.
Zora Neale Hurston

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
Zora Neale Hurston

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
Zora Neale Hurston

I regret all of my books.
Zora Neale Hurston


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

It costs you something to do good!
Zora Neale Hurston

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
Zora Neale Hurston

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
Zora Neale Hurston

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

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
Zora Neale Hurston

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

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
Zora Neale Hurston

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
Zora Neale Hurston

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston