619 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.

Mystery is the essence of divinity

Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.

I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.

The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.

I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.

Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.

Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.