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
united-states curious gender
It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.
knows
You got to go there to know there.
sweat praying cry
Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
life ocean people
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
hope hopeful wish
It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.
ambition games exciting
The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.
dark white race
I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background........Beside the waters of the Hudson" I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again." How It Feels to Be Colored Me
responsibility men omnipotence
It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable always seems divine--hence, religion. People need religion because the great masses fear life and its consequences. Its responsibilities weigh heavy. Feeling a weakness in the face of great forces, men seek an alliance with omnipotence to bolster up their feeling of weakness, even though the omnipotence they rely upon is a creature of their own minds. It gives them a feeling of security.
shoes slave-ships people
People can be slave-ships in shoes.
distance insightful bigs
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
love comfort dinner
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
african-american words-of-wisdom new-horizons
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
personality shows ifs
If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.
love laughing i-love-myself
I love myself when I am laughing.