It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

Topics: Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

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...

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

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

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

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 are years that ask questions and years that answer.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

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.

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...

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

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

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes...

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes...

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

It costs you something to do good!

It costs you something to do good!

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not...

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not...