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
happiness inspiring success
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
discrimination pleasure harlem-renaissance
How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
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.
sweat praying cry
Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
personality shows ifs
If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.
oysters knives black-history
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
moving men comfort
Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance.
happiness inspiring fear
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
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.
motivational atheist people
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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!
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.
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.