619 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.

I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!

Distance is the only cure for certain diseases.

You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.

My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.

When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.

The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.