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

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

Topics: Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

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...

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and...

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and...

It costs you something to do good!

It costs you something to do good!

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its...

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its...

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected...

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected...

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 regret all of my books.

I regret all of my books.

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it...

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it...

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.

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

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

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it...

Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it...

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

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

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

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

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.