A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

Gods always love the people who make em.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

I regret all of my books.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

It costs you something to do good!
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

No man may make another free.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

People can be slave-ships in shoes.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

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

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and that they dwell therein.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote

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

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
- Zora Neale Hurston Quote