619 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

Now, women forget all the things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

When he paraded his possessions hereafter, they would not consider the two together. They’d look with envy at the things and pity the man that owned them.

They, the men, were saving with the mind what they lost with the eye. The women took the faded shirt and muddy overalls and laid them away for remembrance.

My name, is not Cudjo Lewis. It Kossula.

How could the recipient of two Guggenheims and the author of four novels, a dozen short stories, two musicals, two books on black mythology, dozens of essays, and a prizewinning autobiography virtually “disappear” from her readership for three full decades?

Six eyes were questioning God.

Of course he wasn’t dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking.

Before the week was over he had whipped Janie. Not because her behavior justified his jealousy, but it relieved that awful fear inside him. Being able to whip her reassured him in possession.

There two things everybody had to do: Go to God and find out what living is for yourself.