Zora Neale Hurston

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

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

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

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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