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
regret book reading
I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on.
happiness inspiring fear
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
silence genius fool
Silence is all the genius a fool has.
islands race blood
For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.
made persons
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
foxes chickens
Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
love-is singing
Love, I find, is like singing.
friendship good-morning coffee
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
eye dark staring
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
talking people use
It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
motivational sleep men
Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
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.
funny people risk
It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
confusion people glitter
It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.