Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNo hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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 HURSTONMy sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt was the meanest moment of eternity.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHe looked like the love thoughts of women.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere 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 HURSTONI have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONBitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONPeople can be slave ships in shoes.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONOh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNight came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON