619 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

She had been getting ready for her journey to the horizons in search of people; it was important to all the world that she should find them and they find her. But she had been whipped like a cur dog, and run off down a back road after things.

They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty.

Jump at the sun. You might not land on the sun, but at least you’ll get off the ground.

Life, inexhaustible, goes on. And we do too. Carrying our wounds and our medicines as we go. Ours is an amazing, a spectacular, journey in the Americas. It is so remarkable one can only be thankful for it, bizarre as that may sound. Perhaps our planet is for learning to appreciate the extraordinary wonder of life that surrounds even our suffering, and to say Yes, if through the thickest of tears.

Here it is just like it is in Egypt – the scared people do all of the biggest talk.

If you haven’t got it, you can’t show it. If you have got it, you can’t hide it.

Ah’m uh man even if Ah is de Mayor. But de mayor’s wife is somethin’ different again.

Besides she liked being lonesome for a change. This freedom feeling was fine. These men didn’t represent a thing she wanted to know about. She had already experienced them through Logan and Joe. She felt like slapping some of them for sitting around grinning at her like a pack of cheesy cats, trying to make out they looked like love.

A little seed of fear was growing into a tree.