Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made… — 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
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things… — 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
My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as… — 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
Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy.… — 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
But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate. — 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 am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn… — 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
