Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Zora Neale Hurston
No man may make another free.
Zora Neale Hurston
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
Zora Neale Hurston
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
Zora Neale Hurston
People can be slave-ships in shoes.
Zora Neale Hurston
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
Zora Neale Hurston
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
Zora Neale Hurston
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
Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
Zora Neale Hurston
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Zora Neale Hurston
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
Zora Neale Hurston
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
Zora Neale Hurston
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
Zora Neale Hurston
Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
Zora Neale Hurston
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston
When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
Zora Neale Hurston
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
Zora Neale Hurston
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