Quotes By Zora Neale Hurston

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

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.

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

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

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

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

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