619 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.