Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

American - Dramatist January 7, 1891 - January 28, 1960

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

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

Live, Gardening, People, Plants, Trees

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

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

Learning, Purpose, Research, Curiosity

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

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

Future, Past, Present, Egg, Inside, Had

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

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

Horizon, You, Person, Go, Way, Matter

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, Me, Feel, Sometimes, Beyond, How

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

Fear, Anger, Drive, Beast, Off, Grab

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

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

Questions, Ask, Years, Answer

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

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

Love, Soul, Place, Out, Hiding, Your

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

Hide, Got, Show, Those

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

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

Time, Distance, Mighty, Big, Cannot

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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

Mountain, Kitchen, Hands, Sword, Sorrow

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. Zora Neale Hurston

Man, Wish, Distance, Ships, Board, Every

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

Fox, Eat, Chickens, Somebody, Gods, Else

Gods always behave like the people who make them. Zora Neale Hurston

People, Always, Behave, Who, Like, Gods

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say. Zora Neale Hurston

People, Talking, You, Say, Understand

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

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

I Am, World, Busy, Knife, Oyster, Weep

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, Live, Morning, Coffee, Me

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

Opportunity, Children, Sun, Jump, Land

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

Love, Fall, Jump, Just, Parachute, Made

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, Singing, Enough, Find, Impress

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, Losing, People, Nothing

There is something about poverty that smells like death. Zora Neale Hurston

Death, Poverty, Something, Like, Smells

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat! Zora Neale Hurston

Work, Sweat, Cry, Pray

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous. Zora Neale Hurston

Man, Me, Glamorous, Get, Begins, He

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, Doing, You, Feeling, Want, Pay

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

Game, Fighting, Loser, Where, Seems

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