Zora Neale Hurston People Quotations

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

Gods always love the people who make 'em.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

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.

The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody toassociate with me who does not wish me near them?

If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?

That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.

When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to.

A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

...she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see...

She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

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.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

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