anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something! Zora Neale Hurston More Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston More Quotes From Zora Neale Hurston I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal. Zora Neale Hurston making-money wish thinking If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony. Zora Neale Hurston important secret giving I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on. Zora Neale Hurston regret reading book Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. Zora Neale Hurston persons made It 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 good-morning coffee friendship Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein. Zora Neale Hurston curiosity secret wish No man may make another free. Zora Neale Hurston freedom may men The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. Zora Neale Hurston honor men Perhaps, it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would be written at all. It might be better to ask yourself "Why?" afterwards than before. Anyway, the force from somewhere in Space which commands you to write in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. Zora Neale Hurston wise writing book Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress. Zora Neale Hurston egypt black night So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. Zora Neale Hurston laughter brother pregnancy Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im. Zora Neale Hurston earth law men It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams. Zora Neale Hurston blessing dream people It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual. Zora Neale Hurston bottom individual would-be Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring. Zora Neale Hurston one-day spring years Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. Zora Neale Hurston remembers-everything his-eyes want It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing. Zora Neale Hurston risk funny people No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep. Zora Neale Hurston bereavement hours eternity Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens. Zora Neale Hurston chickens foxes If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all. Zora Neale Hurston dusk light people
