Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

"Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much."
-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

"An envious heart makes a treacherous ear."
-Zora Neale Hurston

"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."
-Zora Neale Hurston in Research quotes.

"Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much."
-Zora Neale Hurston in Love quotes.

"I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. . . . I do not weep at the world -- I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."
-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

"Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it."
-Zora Neale Hurston

"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands."
-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 coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it."
-Zora Neale Hurston