But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again. — 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
You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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)
