Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

Topics: Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the...

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the...

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then...

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then...

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then...

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then...

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have...

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have...

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

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

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

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

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off...

Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off...

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That...

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That...

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

I regret all of my books.

I regret all of my books.

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

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

It costs you something to do good!

It costs you something to do good!

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

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