Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

Once you wake up thought in a man you can never put it to sleep again.

Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings — fighting gloriously. Maybe a loser but what a loser! Greater in defeat than the conqueror. Certainly not a coward that rusted out lurking in his tent.

Pheoby's hungry listening helped Janie to tell her story.

They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged.

Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happened.

She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.