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
“Got orders from headquarters. They makin' coffins fuh all de white folks. 'Tain't nothin' but cheap pine, but dat's better'n nothin'. Don't… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“So when we looked at de picture and everybody got pointed out there wasn’t nobody left except a real dark little girl… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“Anyone who looked more white folkish than herself was better than she was in her criteria, therefore it was right that they… — 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)
