Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
The inference is, that God has restated the superiority of the West. God always does like that when a thousand white people… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I am the kind of a woman that likes to move on mentally from point to point, and I like for my… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
“But mostly she lived between her hat and her heels, with her emotional disturbances like shade patterns in the woods—come and gone with the… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
“The woman took the faded shirt and muddy overalls and laid them away from remembrance. It was a weapon against her strength and if… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
“They plan and they fix and they do, and then some kitchen-dwelling fiend slips a scorchy, soggy, tasteless mess into their pots and pans…So… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
“Years ago, she had told her girl self to wait for her in the looking glass. It had been a long time since she… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
“Like the pecking-order in a chicken yard. Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and groveling submission to those you can’t. Once having set… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
