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Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

«There are years that ask questions and years that answer.»
«Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.»
«Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.»
«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. . . . I do not weep at the world -- I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.»
«It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. . . . We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.»
«Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.»
«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.»
«Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.»
Author: Zora Neale Hurston (Writer) | About: Love | Keywords: impress, neighbors, satisfy
«No man may make another free.»
«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.»

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