When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. — 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
Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short.… — 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
When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was… — 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
Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world! — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun. — 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
The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world 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)
