619 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.

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.

After all the imagination is a beautiful thing.

This freedom is a funny thing,' he told them. 'It ain't something permanent like rocks and hills. It's like manna; you just got to keep on gathering it fresh every day. If you don't, one day you're going to find you ain't got none no more.

He had found out that no man may make another free. Freedom was something internal. The outside signs were just signs and symbols of the man inside. All you could do was to give the opportunity for freedom and the man himself must make his own emancipation.

...Somebody got to think for women and chillun and chickens and cows. I god, they sho don’t think none theirselves.""Ah knows a few things, and womenfolks thinks sometimes too!""Aw naw they don't. They just think they's thinkin'. When Ah see one thing Ah understands ten. You see ten things and don't understand one.

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

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.

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.