Words matter. These are the best Zora Neale Hurston Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
I regret all of my books.
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
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.
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
It costs you something to do good!
Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
No man may make another free.
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Gods always love the people who make em.
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
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.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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.
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.
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
