Quotes by : Zora Neale Hurston

When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field....

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happened.....

I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain....

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Once you wake up thought in a man you can never put it to sleep again.

...you got tuh go there tuh know there.

Sometimes God gits familiar wid us womenfolks too and talks His inside business. He told me.how surprised....

Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and grovelling submission to those you can't. Once having set....

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds....