619 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

If dat wuz mah wife," said Walter Thomas, "Ah'd kill her cemetery dead.

Lawd, look at Tookie switchin' it and lookin' back at it! She's done gone crazy thru de hips.

Zora, why do you think dese li'l slim women was put on earth?""Couldn't tell you to save my life.""Well, dese slim ones was put here to beautify de world.""De big ones, musta been put here for de same reason.""Ah, naw, Zora. Ah don't agree wid you there.""Well then, what was they put here for?""To show dese slim girls how far they kin stretch without bustin'.

A woman robbed of her love is more terrible than an army with banners.

She is full uh pepper," John laughed to himself, "but ah laks dat. Anything 'thout no seasonin' in it ain't no good.

Jes' 'cause women folks ain't got no big muscled arm and fistes like jugs, folks claim they's weak vessels, but dass uh lie. Dat piece uh red flannel she got hung 'tween her jaws is equal tuh all the fistes God ever made and man ever seen.

You tries tuh be so much-knowin'. You got tuh learn how tuh speak when you spokin to, come when youse called." "Ah ain't got tuh do but two things--stay black and die," Sister Berry snapped.

Ah wouldn't give uh bitch uh bone if she treed uh terrapin.

Daisy is a walking drum tune. You can almost hear it by looking at the way she walks.