Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston

Love, Soul, Place

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.
Zora Neale Hurston

Angry, Sometimes, Against

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.
Zora Neale Hurston

Good, Feeling, Pay

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.
Zora Neale Hurston

Sorrow, Hands, Mountain

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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
Zora Neale Hurston

Time, Cannot, Big

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
Zora Neale Hurston

Love, Made, Fall

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
Zora Neale Hurston

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.
Zora Neale Hurston

Friendship, Morning, Live

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston

Purpose, Research, Curiosity

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston

Love, May, Find

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.
Zora Neale Hurston

Children, Sun, Her

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston

Busy, Knife, Weep

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
Zora Neale Hurston

Else, Somebody, Anybody

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
Zora Neale Hurston

Funny, Live, Nothing

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
Zora Neale Hurston

Nature, Else, Between

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
Zora Neale Hurston

Future, Past, Present

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston

Fear, Anger, Off

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
Zora Neale Hurston

God, Nothing, Person

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston

Ask, Questions, Answer

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
Zora Neale Hurston

Person, Matter, Far

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
Zora Neale Hurston

Dreams, Blessings, Dream

No man may make another free.
Zora Neale Hurston

May, Free, Another

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston

Gardening, Live, Trees

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
Zora Neale Hurston

Problem, Realize, Race

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
Zora Neale Hurston

Game, Loser, Fighting

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dramatist

Born: January 7, 1891

Died: January 28, 1960

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