I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove, I find, is like singing.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
-
-
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON






