619 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

So Mrs. Turner frowned most of the time. She had so much to disapprove of.

But as de old folks always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.

The one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay. You cannot have knowledge and worship at the same time. Mystery is the essence of divinity. Gods must keep their distances from men.

Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.

Finally, she grew quiet. After that, coherent thought. With this, stalked through her a cold, bloody rage; Hours of this; a period of introspection; a space of retrospection; then a mixture of both. Out of this, an awful calm.

The varicolored cloud dust that the sun has stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees.

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

Love, I find, is like singing.

Sometimes she stuck out into the future, imagining her life different from what is was.