The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting. Zora Neale Hurston More Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston More Quotes From Zora Neale Hurston I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person. Zora Neale Hurston urges individual persons But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet. Zora Neale Hurston liable folks born The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky. Zora Neale Hurston light sky yellow If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige? Zora Neale Hurston black yellow people There is something about poverty that smells like death. Zora Neale Hurston smell poverty It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding. Zora Neale Hurston misunderstanding I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death. Zora Neale Hurston busy mind want Grown people know that they do not always know the why of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. Hence the irritation they show when children keep on demanding to know if a thing is so and how the grown folks got the proof of it. It is so troublesome because it is disturbing to the pigeonhole way of life. Zora Neale Hurston irritation children thinking It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out. Zora Neale Hurston angel beauty heaven She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman. Zora Neale Hurston making-love dream firsts Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore. Zora Neale Hurston different sea love-is For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks. Zora Neale Hurston race islands blood Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering Zora Neale Hurston suffering love men She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them. Zora Neale Hurston It was the meanest moment of eternity. Zora Neale Hurston bereavement moments eternity I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe. Zora Neale Hurston ocean europe america Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged. Zora Neale Hurston eye faith long You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence. Zora Neale Hurston charity victim ideas Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time. Zora Neale Hurston done long jesus Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Zora Neale Hurston suffering fear men