If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONPeople can be slave ships in shoes.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONTruth is a letter from courage!
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMystery is the essence of divinity
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNight came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONSometimes, 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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNo, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONSo her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONWhen one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere are years that ask questions and years that answer.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAnd I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThey seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON