619 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.

They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

...she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see...

No man may make another free.

Perhaps it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?' afterward than before. Anyway, the force of somewhere in space which commands you to write in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

Silence is all the genius a fool has.

I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.