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
ducks light diversity
Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.
white backgrounds feels
I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
regret book i-regret
I regret all of my books.
morning flower air
The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet… From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.
liable born folks
But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.
laughter hate tears
it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
prayer beats
you can't beat me and my prayers!
letters truth-is
truth is a letter from courage!
spring years one-day
Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.
tree done branches
Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
morning towns sun
Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
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.
individual persons urges
I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.
jamaica class white
To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.