List of Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

Honey, De White Man Is De Ruler Of Everything As Fur As Ah Been Able Tuh Find Out. Maybe It's Some Place Way Off In De Ocean Where De Black Man Is In Power, But We Don't Know Nothin' But What We See.

So Janie Waited A Bloom Time, And A Green Time And An Orange Time.

Among The Thousand White Persons, I Am A Dark Rock Surged Upon, And Overswept.

Tea Cake, The Son Of The Evening Sun, Had To Die For Loving Her.

Now They Got To Look Into Me Loving Tea Cake And See Whether It Was Done Right Or Not! They Don't Know If Life Is A Mess Of Corn-meal Dumplings, And If Love Is A Bed-quilt!

The Liquor Of Statecraft Is Distilled From The Mash You Got.

When The People Sat Around On The Porch And Passed Around The Pictures Of Their Thoughts For The Others To Look At And See, It Was Nice. The Fact That The Thought Pictures Were Always Crayon Enlargements Of Life Made It Even Nicer To Listen To.

The Haitian People Are Gentle And Lovable Except For Their Enormous And Unconscious Cruelty.

When I Pitched Headforemost Into The World I Landed In The Crib Of Negroism.

So In Jamaica It Is The Aim Of Everybody To Talk English, Act English And Look English. And That Last Specification Is Where The Greatest Difficulties Arise. It Is Not So Difficult To Put A Coat Of European Culture Over African Culture, But It Is Next To Impossible To Lay A European Face Over An African Face In The Same Generation.

You'se Something Tuh Make Uh Man Forgit To Git Old And Forgit Tuh Die.

Africa Has Her Mouth On Moses.