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
life thinking people
Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
people ems
Gods always love the people who make 'em.
self order people
The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody toassociate with me who does not wish me near them?
yellow people black
If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?
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.
garden people tree
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
people lovable haitian
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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.
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.
talking people use
It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
people faces wanted
...she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see...
dream fall people
She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
confusion people glitter
It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
funny people risk
It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.