Zora Neale Hurston Quotes - Page 2

No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

He has only heard what I felt.

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

For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth.

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

I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.

When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.

It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful.

Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.

Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain

All of the people took it up and sung it over and over until it was wrung dry, and no further innovations of tone and tempo were conceivable. Then they hushed and ate barbecue.

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

No man may make another free.