Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

It’s no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey’s back.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

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 are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

It costs you something to do good!

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

Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.

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.

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

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