Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
– 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
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
– Zora Neale Hurston
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
– Zora Neale Hurston
No man may make another free.
– Zora Neale Hurston
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
– Zora Neale Hurston
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
– Zora Neale Hurston
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
– Zora Neale Hurston
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
– Zora Neale Hurston
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
– Zora Neale Hurston
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
– Zora Neale Hurston
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
– Zora Neale Hurston
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
– Zora Neale Hurston
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
– Zora Neale Hurston
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
– Zora Neale Hurston
It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
– Zora Neale Hurston
It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
– Zora Neale Hurston
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
– Zora Neale Hurston
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
– Zora Neale Hurston
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
– Zora Neale Hurston
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
– Zora Neale Hurston