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
years emptiness
I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.
friendship ocean limits
Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.
gratitude grateful law
It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.
beauty beautiful eye
Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
jamaica islands perfect
The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.
jamaica culture looks
So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.
spirit affection spots
Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.
race towns birth
I was born in a Negro town.
moving love-is sea
There's two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living. Now, love is like the sea. It's a moving thing. And it's different on every shore. And living... well... There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
mouths moses
Africa has her mouth on Moses.
grace reptiles notes
I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.
strong sleep love-is
I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.
ambition racism world
When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.
justice african-american race-relations
The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.