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Zora Neale Hurston8 quotes
There are years that ask questions and years that answer. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1937Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1937Gods always behave like the people who make them. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1938Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1937All 8 quotes →