Zora Neale Hurston Way Quotations

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.

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.

Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.