Zora Neale Hurston quotes
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
Zora Neale Hurston quotes
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
Zora Neale Hurston quotes
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston quotes
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
Zora Neale Hurston quotes
Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
Zora Neale Hurston quotes
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
Zora Neale Hurston quotes
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 quotes
Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
Zora Neale Hurston quotes
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston quotes
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
Zora Neale Hurston quotes
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 quotes
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Zora Neale Hurston quotes
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 quotes
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 quotes
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
Zoot Sims quotes
We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.
Zoot Sims quotes
If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.
Zoot Sims quotes
As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.