Zora Neale Hurston quotes
I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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.
Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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.
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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.
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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.
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.
As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.