Zora Neale Hurston Quotes - Page 9

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

You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.

The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody toassociate with me who does not wish me near them?

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.

The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!

Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.

Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.

So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.