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
doubt misty
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
sorry pain hatred
I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.
water mouths tongue
I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.
night egypt black
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
country lying fighting
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
shelves
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
use way cry
Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.
self dying
Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.
inspirational humans human-beings
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
long made quotations
[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.
love men suffering
Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering
children thinking irritation
Grown people know that they do not always know the why of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. Hence the irritation they show when children keep on demanding to know if a thing is so and how the grown folks got the proof of it. It is so troublesome because it is disturbing to the pigeonhole way of life.
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.
feelings mind matter
I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.