Top 40 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

I 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 sword in my hands.

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

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

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

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.

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