Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

Zora Neale Hurston Quotes.

It's no use of talking unless people understand what yo

It’s no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
Zora Neale Hurston
Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey’s back.
Zora Neale Hurston
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
Zora Neale Hurston
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.
Zora Neale Hurston
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
Zora Neale Hurston
It is one of the blessings of this world that few peopl

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
Zora Neale Hurston
It costs you something to do good!
Zora Neale Hurston
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
Zora Neale Hurston
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
Zora Neale Hurston
Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
Zora Neale Hurston
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
Zora Neale Hurston
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for th

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Zora Neale Hurston
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston