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
strong moving men
I am the kind of a woman that likes to move on mentally from point to point, and I like for my man to be there way ahead of me. Then if he is strong and honest, it goes on from there. Good looks are not essential, just extra added attraction.
towns eyes-watching
They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.
love men suffering
Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering
tree done branches
Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
thinking white black
And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.
dark doors spy
...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.
laughter hate tears
it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
prayer beats
you can't beat me and my prayers!
letters truth-is
truth is a letter from courage!
She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
lying scared folks
anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
men special every-man
Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is.
long made quotations
[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.
memories rocks cold
Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.