The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion. — 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
The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody… — 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
A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams. — 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
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and… — 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
The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. — 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
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
...she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see... — 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
If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen… — 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
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's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that… — 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
