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
blue dust wind
..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. .. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.
dust voice roots
She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.
god
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
kissing tree singing
Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
race way sense-of-humor
My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
night two daylight
Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.
men law earth
Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.
i-can
Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
spirit affection spots
Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.
hate men way
But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.
mother native-american african-american
I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.
years emptiness
I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.
girl baby attitude
I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!
distance disease certain
Distance is the only cure for certain diseases.