Top 40 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

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

I regret all of my books.

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

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

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.

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.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.