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
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?
self dying
Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.
crush self soul
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
teacher pride self
Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.
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.