619 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.

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

It is so easy to be hopeful in the day time when you can see the things you wish on.

She knew because she looked.

But nothin' can stop you from wishin'.

For what can excuse a man in the eyes of other men for lack of strength?

Tain't no trouble tuh say whut's already so.

It seems to me that organized creeds are collections of words around a wish. I feel no need for such. I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms. When the consciousness we know as life ceases, I know that I shall still be part and parcel of the world."-Zora Neale Hurston

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes....Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world - I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.