Zora Neale Hurston

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.

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

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

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

I regret all of my books.

It costs you something to do good!

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

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

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

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

Gods always love the people who make em.

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

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

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

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.