Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

Zora Neale Hurston Quotes.

Everybody has some special road of thought along which

Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is.
Zora Neale Hurston
Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
Zora Neale Hurston
Anybody depending on somebody else’s gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
Zora Neale Hurston
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Zora Neale Hurston
There’s two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living. Now, love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing. And it’s different on every shore. And living… well… There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston
Such as I am, I am a precious gift.
Zora Neale Hurston
You got to go there to know there.
Zora Neale Hurston
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
Zora Neale Hurston
It costs you something to do good!
Zora Neale Hurston
But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
Zora Neale Hurston
No man may make another free.
Zora Neale Hurston
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Zora Neale Hurston
When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
Zora Neale Hurston
I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
Zora Neale Hurston
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
Zora Neale Hurston