Quotes By Zora Neale Hurston

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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

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.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

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.

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

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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

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

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

Gods always love the people who make em.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

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.

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.

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

I regret all of my books.

It costs you something to do good!

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

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

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

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

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

No man may make another free.

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

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

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

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.

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

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