Assurance Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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

“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

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

“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

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

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

— Zora Neale Hurston

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

“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

“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

“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

“Ah jus lak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don’t pee-pee.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

“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