Mules and Men
Zora Neale Hurston
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It seems to me that organized creeds are collections of words around a wish. I feel no need for such. I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms. When the consciousness we know as life ceases, I know that I shall still be part and parcel of the world."-
“Mouths don't empty themselves unless ears are sympathetic and knowing.”
“We proaged on thru the woods that was full of magnolia, pine, cedar, oak, cypress, hickory, and many kinds of trees whose names I do not know. It is hard to know all the trees in Florida.”
“Most people is thin-brained.”
“Many a man thinks he is making something when he's only changing things around.”
“Dat's de reason de sister in black works harder than anybody else in the world. De white man tells de n****r to work and he takes and tells his wife.”
“Zora,” George Thomas informed me, “you come to de right place if lies is what you want. Ah’m gointer lie up a nation.” Charlie Jones said, “Yeah, man. Me and my sworn buddy Gene Brazzle is here. Big Moose done come down from de mountain.” “Now, you gointer hear lies above suspicion,” Gene added.”
“Zora, why do you think dese li'l slim women was put on earth?" "Couldn't tell you to save my life." "Well, dese slim ones was put here to beautify de world." "De big ones, musta been put here for de same reason." "Ah, naw, Zora. Ah don't agree wid you there." "Well then, what was they put here for?" "To show dese slim girls how far they kin stretch without bustin'.”
“You know they say a white man git in some kind of trouble, he'll fret and fret until he kill hisself. A n****r git into trouble, he'll fret for a while, then g'wan to sleep.”
“What yo' all reckon is the matter sho' 'nough?" "Must be something terrible when white folks get slow about putting us to work.”
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