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
sky yellow light
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
quilts love-is loving-life
Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!
writing magic nobody-knows
Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.
juice pot myth
Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.
race feminine beads
I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
beauty angel heaven
It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.
eye white hair
She's got those big black eyes with plenty shiny white in them that makes them shine like brand new money and she knows what God gave women eyelashes for, too. Her hair is not what you might call straight. It's negro hair, but it's got a kind of white flavor. Like the piece of string out of a ham. It's not ham at all, but it's been around ham and got the flavor.
worry half want
want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.
beauty tree patterns
God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.
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.
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?
mouths ifs slogans
Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.
politics liquor
The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
ocean europe america
I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe.