Zora Neale Hurston

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morn ...

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

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

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that las ...

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

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for ...

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

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation ...

It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Differ ...

Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.

Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't kn ...

It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impr ...