Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

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Zora Neale Hurston

Profession : Dramatist

Birth : January 7, 1891

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

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.

Zora Neale Hurston

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

Zora Neale Hurston

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Zora Neale Hurston

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Zora Neale Hurston

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.

Zora Neale Hurston

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.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Zora Neale Hurston

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.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Gods always love the people who make em.

Zora Neale Hurston

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.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Zora Neale Hurston

It costs you something to do good!

Zora Neale Hurston