619 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.

Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.

There's two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living. Now, love is like the sea. It's a moving thing. And it's different on every shore. And living... well... There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.

Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.

She's got those big black eyes with plenty shiny white in them that makes them shine like brand new money and she knows what God gave women eyelashes for, too. Her hair is not what you might call straight. It's negro hair, but it's got a kind of white flavor. Like the piece of string out of a ham. It's not ham at all, but it's been around ham and got the flavor.

It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.

I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.

Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.