Zora Neale Hurston

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

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

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

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

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

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

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 dream dreams.

They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking without master...

No man may make another free.

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember and remember everything they don't want to forget.

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

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

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

I want a busy life a just mind and a timely death.

I love myself when I am laughing.

Love I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.