57 result(s) for Zora Neale Hurston Quotes.
"Those that don't got it can't show it. Those that got it can't hide it."
"I do not weep at the world; I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."
"I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive."
"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?"
"Gods always behave like the people who make them."
"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."
"Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow."
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"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."
"No matter how far a person can go, the horizon is still way beyond you."
"Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships."
"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell."
"My hand is filthy. I will clean it when I have wiped it on your grandmama's dress."
"Two things everybody's got tuh do fuhtheyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves."
"Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it."
"All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason."
"The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth."
"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."
"Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves."
"There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle."
"I do not weep at the world--I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."
"Been a long time since I heard de big bell rung in uh vacant field to call white folks to prayer, but de old memory still lingers among de hills uh misty, used-to-be."
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"Not that she had much choice. A chameleon with wrong dreams colored like a flower desperate for bee."
"Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins."
"If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it."
"Any man who is good by heart, makes a mockingbird sing."
"I am not tragically colored. There is no sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all."
"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."
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some, they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time."
"I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background."
"I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive."
"It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser."
"Gods always love the women that men beat up the most."
"You got tuh go there tuh know there."
"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.'"
"Gods always love punishes."
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"When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners."
"Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."
"Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking."
"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 a sword in my hands."
"Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil."
"No, I do not weep at the world - I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."
"I love myself when I am laughing... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive."
"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear."
"If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it."
"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."
"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."
"Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it."
"A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it."
"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."
"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."
"But for the stumbling of the feet in the dark, my eyes saw a glory so great, that I set my foot upon the wide plain of the heavens and walked in power."
"There is something about poverty that smells like death."
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
"Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much."
"I do not weep at the world, I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."
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