Motivational Zora Neale Hurston Quotes For Success In Life

Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. These inspirational Zora Neale Hurston Quotes will change your life.

Best Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

1. “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” – Zora Neale Hurston
2. “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” – Zora Neale Hurston
3. “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” – Zora Neale Hurston
4. “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” – Zora Neale Hurston
5. “If you haven’t got it, you can’t show it. If you have got it, you can’t hide it.” – Zora Neale Hurston
6. “Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey’s back.” – Zora Neale Hurston
7. “All my skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.” – Zora Neale Hurston

8. “Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.” – Zora Neale Hurston

9. “Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.” – Zora Neale Hurston
10. “I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.” – Zora Neale Hurston
11. “Such as I am, I am a precious gift.” – Zora Neale Hurston
12. “Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.” – Zora Neale Hurston
13. “You got to go there to know there.” – Zora Neale Hurston
14. “I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.” – Zora Neale Hurston
15. “Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.” – Zora Neale Hurston
16. “It’s no use of talking unless people understand what you say.” – Zora Neale Hurston
17. “Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.” – Zora Neale Hurston
18. “They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.” – Zora Neale Hurston
19. “Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!” – Zora Neale Hurston
20. “Mystery is the essence of divinity” – Zora Neale Hurston
21. “I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.” – Zora Neale Hurston
22. “Gods always behave like the people who make them.” – Zora Neale Hurston
23. “An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.” – Zora Neale Hurston

24. “truth is a letter from courage!” – Zora Neale Hurston

25. “Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.” – Zora Neale Hurston
26. “Oh, to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!” – Zora Neale Hurston
27. “It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.” – Zora Neale Hurston
28. “anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!” – Zora Neale Hurston
29. “Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.” – Zora Neale Hurston
30. “The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.” – Zora Neale Hurston
31. “People can be slave-ships in shoes.” – Zora Neale Hurston
32. “Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.” – Zora Neale Hurston
33. “Silence is all the genius a fool has.” – Zora Neale Hurston
34. “It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.” – Zora Neale Hurston
35. “She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.” – Zora Neale Hurston

36. “I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.” – Zora Neale Hurston

37. “Anybody depending on somebody else’s gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.” – Zora Neale Hurston
38. “A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.” – Zora Neale Hurston
39. “She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.” – Zora Neale Hurston
40. “When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.” – Zora Neale Hurston
41. “I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.” – Zora Neale Hurston
42. “want won’t kill you half as quick as worry will.” – Zora Neale Hurston
43. “I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.” – Zora Neale Hurston
44. “Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.” – Zora Neale Hurston
45. “I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.” – Zora Neale Hurston
46. “She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.” – Zora Neale Hurston
47. “There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.” – Zora Neale Hurston

48. “Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.” – Zora Neale Hurston

49. “No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.” – Zora Neale Hurston
50. “Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.” – Zora Neale Hurston
51. “She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.” – Zora Neale Hurston
52. “Women forget all the things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget.” – Zora Neale Hurston
53. “Don’t you love nobody better’n you do yo’self. Do, you’ll be dying befo’ yo’ time is out.” – Zora Neale Hurston
54. “Look lak she been livin’ through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.” – Zora Neale Hurston
55. “I love myself when I am laughing.” – Zora Neale Hurston
56. “It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.” – Zora Neale Hurston
57. “It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.” – Zora Neale Hurston
58. “it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!” – Zora Neale Hurston
59. “She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.” – Zora Neale Hurston
60. “Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.” – Zora Neale Hurston

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