Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

“An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.”

“Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.”

“I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.”

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”

“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 makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”

“No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”

“Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.”

“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.”

“There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.”

“People can be slave ships in shoes.”

“A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.”

“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.”

“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.”

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”