Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."

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

"I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."

"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear."

"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."

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

"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell."

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

"No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you."

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

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

"It costs you something to do good!"

"No man may make another free."

"It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser."

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

"Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural."

"Gods always behave like the people who make them."

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

"People can be slave-ships in shoes."

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

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

"Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow."

"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."

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