Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.
That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is.
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.
Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.
Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.
Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.
I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
