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
worry half want
want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.
mouths ifs slogans
Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.
thinking wish making-money
I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.
self dying
Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.
children thinking irritation
Grown people know that they do not always know the why of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. Hence the irritation they show when children keep on demanding to know if a thing is so and how the grown folks got the proof of it. It is so troublesome because it is disturbing to the pigeonhole way of life.
names people way
That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.
politics liquor
The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
friendship ocean limits
Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.
race towns birth
I was born in a Negro town.
kindness belly harder
To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.
misunderstanding
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
men glamorous draws
When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
cost
It costs you something to do good!
garden people tree
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.