“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― ​Zora Neale Hurston​, ​Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― ​Zora Neale Hurston
“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely
astonishes
can
me.
​ How ​
any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond
me.”
― ​Zora Neale Hurston
“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”
― ​Zora Neale Hurston​, ​Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it
meets, and it's different with every shore.”
― ​Zora Neale Hurston​, ​Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.”
― ​Zora Neale Hurston
“When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and
glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still
he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little
spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the
lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.”
― ​Zora Neale Hurston​, ​Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.”
― ​Zora Neale Hurston
“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”
― ​Zora Neale Hurston​, ​Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
― ​Zora Neale Hurston
“Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got
tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.”
― ​Zora Neale Hurston​, ​Their Eyes Were Watching God
“There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound
and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of
formless feelings untouched by thought.”
― ​Zora Neale Hurston​, ​Their Eyes Were Watching God
“It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it
was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round
world in his hands . . . They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes
straining against cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny
might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching
God.”
― ​Zora Neale Hurston​, ​Their Eyes Were Watching God