zora neale hurston

“ There are years that ask questions and years that answer. ”

“ No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep. ”

“ I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands. ”

“ Oh to be a pear tree - any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world! ”

“ People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor. ”

“ Finally, she grew quiet. After that, coherent thought. With this, stalked through her a cold, bloody rage; hours of this; a period of introspection; a space of retrospection; then a mixture of both. Out of this, an awful calm. ”

“ Half Gods are worshipped with wine and flowers. Real Gods require blood. ”

“ Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. ”

“ I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me. ”

“ Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat! ”