Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.

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.

Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

If you haven’t got it, you can’t show it. If you have got it, you can’t hide it.

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

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

Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Gods always love the people who make em.

I regret all of my books.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.