An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. - Zora Neale Hurston
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. - 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. - Zora Neale Hurston
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners. - Zora Neale Hurston
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. - Zora Neale Hurston
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it. - Zora Neale Hurston
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. - Zora Neale Hurston
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. - Zora Neale Hurston
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. - Zora Neale Hurston
I would like just a little of her sunshine to soak into my soul. I would like that a lot. - Zora Neale Hurston
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. - Zora Neale Hurston