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
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.
girl baby attitude
I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!
kindness belly harder
To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.
arms bitterness weakness
To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.
heart sorrow graveyard
every heart has its graveyard.
father boys flames
Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the sun with his seven horns of flame is the father of life.
memories rocks cold
Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.
i-can
Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
yellow people black
If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?
strong moving men
I am the kind of a woman that likes to move on mentally from point to point, and I like for my man to be there way ahead of me. Then if he is strong and honest, it goes on from there. Good looks are not essential, just extra added attraction.
graduation talent shows
Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
ocean men white-man
Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.
orange green janie
So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.