it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life! — 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
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her. — 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
Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring. — 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
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
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
Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night. — 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
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
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
“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 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know… — 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
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)
