Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurstonwas an American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth7 January 1891
CountryUnited States of America
light people dusk
If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.
beauty beautiful eye
Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
dream heart air
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in sickly air. People can be slaveships in shoes.
ocean europe america
I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe.
heart sorrow graveyard
every heart has its graveyard.
happiness inspiring fear
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
love comfort dinner
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
shoes slave-ships people
People can be slave-ships in shoes.
giving precious-gifts
Such as I am, I am a precious gift.
found
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
african-american words-of-wisdom new-horizons
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
men saving-up feelings
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
love laughing i-love-myself
I love myself when I am laughing.
morning hero men
The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.