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
men law earth
Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.
hate men way
But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.
men dies
You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.
ocean men white-man
Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.
dark men white
The inference is, that God has restated the superiority of the West. God always does like that when a thousand white people surround one dark one. Dark people are always "bad" when they do not admit the Divine Plan like that. A certain Javanese man who sticks up for Indonesian Independence is very lowdown by the papers, and suspected of being a Japanese puppet.
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.
love men suffering
Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering
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.
men glamorous draws
When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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.
men light race
Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was a Negro. Must I not also go hang my head in shame when a member of my race does something execrable? . . . The white race did not go into a laboratory and invent incandescent light. That was Edison. . . . If you are under the impression that every white man is an Edison, just look around a bit.
fear men suffering
Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.
men honor
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
motivational sleep men
Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.