Quotes By Author: Zora Neale Hurston

“Gods always behave like the people who make them.”

“Perhaps it is natural for the god of the poor to be akin to the god of the dead, for there is something about poverty that smells of death”

“It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

“Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.”

“When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.”

“Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.”

“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”