619 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

every heart has its graveyard.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Such as I am, I am a precious gift.

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.

I love myself when I am laughing.

The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.

You got to go there to know there.

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.