619 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.

Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.

I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.

Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.

Grown people know that they do not always know the why of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. Hence the irritation they show when children keep on demanding to know if a thing is so and how the grown folks got the proof of it. It is so troublesome because it is disturbing to the pigeonhole way of life.

That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.

I was born in a Negro town.