“Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“Silence is all the genius a fool has and it is one of the things a smart man knows how to use when he needs it.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“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
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“Love, 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
“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 is beyond me.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“If you haven’t got it, you can’t show it. If you have got it, you can’t hide it.”
— Zora Neale Hurston