01c. 1925 ADThe one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay. You cannot have knowledge and worship at the same time. Mystery is the essence of divinity. Gods must keep their distances from men.Zora Neale Hurston / quote ↗
03c. 1925 ADNo, I do not weep at the world – I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.Zora Neale Hurston / quote ↗
04c. 1925 ADPerhaps 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 / quote ↗
05c. 1925 ADHusbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant. It was just so. Janie felt glad of the thought, for then it wouldn't seem so destructive and mouldy. She wouldn't be lonely anymore.Zora Neale Hurston / quote ↗
06c. 1925 ADJohn will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is what they believe, and so they do not worry. They go on and laugh and sing. Things are bound to come out right tomorrow. That is the secret of Negro song and laughter.Zora Neale Hurston / quote ↗
07c. 1925 ADNanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rainZora Neale Hurston / quote ↗
08c. 1925 ADTain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.Zora Neale Hurston / quote ↗
09c. 1925 ADLet the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings — fighting gloriously. Maybe a loser but what a loser! Greater in defeat than the conqueror. Certainly not a coward that rusted out lurking in his tent.Zora Neale Hurston / quote ↗
10c. 1925 ADAll 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.Zora Neale Hurston / quote ↗
11c. 1925 ADA thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.Zora Neale Hurston / quote ↗
12c. 1925 ADI 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 sword in my hands.Zora Neale Hurston / quote ↗
14c. 1925 ADIt seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble and then not worth much after you get it.Zora Neale Hurston / quote ↗
16c. 1925 ADLove I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.Zora Neale Hurston / quote ↗
18c. 1925 ADOnce you wake up thought in a man you can never put it to sleep again.Zora Neale Hurston / quote ↗
19c. 1925 ADThere is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.Zora Neale Hurston / quote ↗
21c. 1925 ADWomen forget all the things they don't want to remember and remember everything they don't want to forget.Zora Neale Hurston / quote ↗
23c. 1925 ADThey made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking without master...Zora Neale Hurston / quote ↗
24c. 1925 ADIt is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.Zora Neale Hurston / quote ↗
