619 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.

Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.

Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.

Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.

I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.