Quotes from Zora Neale Hurston

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches

God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.

truth is a letter from courage!

She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!

Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Gods always love the people who make 'em.

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

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

Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.

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

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

No man may make another free.

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.

She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.