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Zora Neale Hurston Quotes | Quotes said by Zora Neale Hurston

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #1

    ...you got tuh go there tuh know there.


  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #2

    ..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. .. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #3

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

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #4

    All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #5

    An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happened.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #6

    And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #7

    But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #8

    For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #9

    From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #10

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

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #11

    Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #12

    He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #13

    Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #14

    Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant. It was just so. Janie felt glad of the thought, for then it wouldn't seem so destructive and mouldy. She wouldn't be lonely anymore.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #15

    I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #16

    I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #17

    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.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #18

    I would like just a little of her sunshine to soak into my soul. I would like that a lot.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #19

    If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #20

    Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and grovelling submission to those you can't. Once having set up her idols and built altars to the, it was imevitable that she would worship there. It was inevitable that she would accept any inconsistency and cruelty from her deity as all good worshippers do from theirs. All gods who recieve homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped Though indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #21

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

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #22

    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 Quote #23

    It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #24

    It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #25

    It was the meanest moment of eternity.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #26

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

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #27

    John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is what they believe, and so they do not worry. They go on and laugh and sing. Things are bound to come out right tomorrow. That is the secret of Negro song and laughter.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #28

    Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #29

    Look lak we done run our conversation from grass roots tuh pine trees.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Quote #30

    Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

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