“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
Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I… — 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
Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in… — 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
There's two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that organized creeds are collections of words around a wish. I feel no need for such. I know… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“Make the attempt if you want to, but you will find that trying to go through life without friendship, is like milking… — 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 seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life! — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“There two things everybody had to do: Go to God and find out what living is for yourself.” — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“Here, finally, was a woman on a quest for her own identity and, unlike so many other questing figures in black literature,… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“There is two things everybody got to find out for theirselves. They got to find out about love and they got to… — 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
