All Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
- Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept. Among
- A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is… All
- We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow… Acquire
- Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. All
- There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the… Air
- Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by… Any
- I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am… Been
- Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was… Benefit
- I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background. Background
- If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it. Hide
- I regret all of my books. All
- Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is… American
- I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. .… Accept
- Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Altars
- Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again. Man
- I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at… All
- Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Black
- It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say. Inspirational
- Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil. Everyday
- There's two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living.… Answer
- I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads. Beads
- I love myself when I am laughing. Laughing
- Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged. Eye
- Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to… Better
- Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets… Cosmic