619 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

He’s got uh throne in de seat of his pants.

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes... Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world – I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Tea Cake went out and wandered around. Saw the hand of horror on everything.

She knew things that nobody had ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. She often spoke to falling seeds and said, “Ah hope you fall on soft ground,” because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether.

SISTER TAYLOR Brother Mayor, I ain’t one of these folks dat bite my tongue and bust my gall – Whuts inside got to come out!

She must lend her ears to the sounds of mighty words boiling out of futile men. She must bear something in male form, for after all that is what she was born for – a passageway for boy children.

Tea Cake went out and wandered around. Saw the hand of horror on everything. Houses without roofs, and roofs without houses. Steel and stone all crushed and crumbled like wood. The mother of malice had trifled with men.

There is two things everybody got to find out for theirselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.

Maybe if she had known some other way to try, she might have made his face different. But what the other way could be, she had no idea.