Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige? — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it. — 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
That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets,… — 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
Grown people know that they do not always know the why of things, and even if they think they know, they do… — 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 maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Ah jus lak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don’t pee-pee.” — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“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 Image
![“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 the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men [and women].” quote by Zora Neale Hurston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b4c/zora-neale-hurston-923_death_ships-at-a-distance-have-every-man-s-wis_14724.jpg)
