“They, the men, were saving with the mind what they lost with the eye.” — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“There was already something dead about him. He didn’t rear back in his knees any longer. He squatted over his ankles when… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is… — 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
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do… — 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
