Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

Explore a curated collection of 28 quotes by Zora Neale Hurston. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am — Zora Neale Hurston
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. — Zora Neale Hurston
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it. — Zora Neale Hurston
Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and grovelling submission to those you can't. Once having set up her idols and — Zora Neale Hurston
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners. — Zora Neale Hurston
Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I — Zora Neale Hurston
John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is what they believe, an — Zora Neale Hurston
All of the people took it up and sung it over and over until it was wrung dry, and no further innovations of tone and te — Zora Neale Hurston
I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows — Zora Neale Hurston
Faith hasn't got no eyes but she's long-legged. — Zora Neale Hurston
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 — Zora Neale Hurston
I love myself when I am laughing. — Zora Neale Hurston
Love I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves though it may not impress the neighbors as — Zora Neale Hurston
I want a busy life a just mind and a timely death. — Zora Neale Hurston
Once you wake up thought in a man you can never put it to sleep again. — Zora Neale Hurston
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them. — Zora Neale Hurston
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. — 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
No man may make another free. — Zora Neale Hurston
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams. — Zora Neale Hurston