9 beautiful quotes by Zora Neale Hurston. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Zora Neale Hurston
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
“She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.”
“She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun...
“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever o...
“Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and drape...
“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipp...
“So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thir...
“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
“Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his m...
