Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.

To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.

Anybody depending on somebody else’s gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.

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.

Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.

All my skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.

I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.