Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. These inspirational Zora Neale Hurston Quotes will change your life.
Best Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
- “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “If you haven’t got it, you can’t show it. If you have got it, you can’t hide it.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey’s back.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “All my skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.” – Zora Neale Hurston
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“Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Such as I am, I am a precious gift.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “You got to go there to know there.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “It’s no use of talking unless people understand what you say.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Mystery is the essence of divinity” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Gods always behave like the people who make them.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.” – Zora Neale Hurston
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“truth is a letter from courage!” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Oh, to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “People can be slave-ships in shoes.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Silence is all the genius a fool has.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.” – Zora Neale Hurston
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“I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Anybody depending on somebody else’s gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “want won’t kill you half as quick as worry will.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.” – Zora Neale Hurston
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“Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Women forget all the things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Don’t you love nobody better’n you do yo’self. Do, you’ll be dying befo’ yo’ time is out.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Look lak she been livin’ through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “I love myself when I am laughing.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- “Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.” – Zora Neale Hurston
