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
wall eye dark
It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands . . . They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
eye men spices
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.
two two-things eyes-watching
Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.
shelves
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
inspirational humans human-beings
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
average world way
He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
smell poverty
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
mind want busy
I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
night egypt black
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
morning towns sun
Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
nice people looks
When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to.
spirit bedroom parlor
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
brother laughter pregnancy
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
country lying fighting
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.