Zora Neale Hurston's Quotes

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

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

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always love the people who make em.

I regret all of my books.

It costs you something to do good!

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

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.

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.

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

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.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

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

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.