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
regret book i-regret
I regret all of my books.
beauty tree patterns
God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.
heart ears envious
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
sky yellow light
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
islands race blood
For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.
justice people liquor
A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
men honor
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
mean boys laughing
Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.
secret curiosity wish
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.
made persons
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
motivational sleep men
Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
talking people use
It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
eye dark staring
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
remembers-everything want his-eyes
Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.