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
god
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
love inspirational life
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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.
strong hurt dirty
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
pain silent harlem-renaissance
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
courage reality nerves
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
discrimination pleasure harlem-renaissance
How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
granddaughter black elbows
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.
kinfolk
All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.
ideas charity victim
You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.
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.
knows
You got to go there to know there.
sweat praying cry
Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
hope hopeful wish
It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.