Quotes By Zora Neale Hurston

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.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.

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

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

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

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.

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