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
mind want busy
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
love-thoughts eyes-watching
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
life ocean people
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
granddaughter black elbows
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.
hurt revenge coward
Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
wisdom book donkey
Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
discrimination pleasure harlem-renaissance
How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
life dream women
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
motivational atheist people
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
life inspiring time
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
kinfolk
All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.
wise book agony
If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.
courage reality nerves
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
writing science curiosity
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.