Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

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

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Learning Research Purpose Curiosity

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Zora Neale Hurston

Fear Anger Drive Beast

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

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Gardening Live Plants Look People

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

Zora Neale Hurston

You Person Way Horizon

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Future Past Egg Present

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 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

Children Opportunity Sun Jump

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

Zora Neale Hurston

I Am World Busy Knife Oyster

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 Hands Kitchen Sword

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Questions Answer Years Ask

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston

Love Soul Place Your Out

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 You Feeling Misunderstanding

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

Zora Neale Hurston

People You Understand Talking

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Love Fall Jump Just

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Zora Neale Hurston

People Always Like Who

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Game Fighting Loser Where

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

Zora Neale Hurston

Work Cry Sweat Pray

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Hide Show Got Those

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Time Distance Big Cannot Mighty

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Man Wish Distance Every

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Eat Fox Chickens Somebody

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

Zora Neale Hurston

Brother Courage Black Laughter

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 Drive Will Go

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Dreams People World Blessings

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