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Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

Zora Neale Hurston quotes

American Playwright January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960

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Zora Neale Hurston quote: "it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the..."
it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life! Zora Neale Hurston
I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living. Zora Neale Hurston
At certain times I have no race. I am me. I belong to no race or time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads. I do not weep at the world--I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. I have a strong suspicion, but I can't be sure, that much that passes for constant love is a golded-up moment walking in its sleep. Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can anyone deny... Zora Neale Hurston
She couldn’t make him look just like any other man to her. He looked like the love thoughts of women. He could be a bee to a blossom – a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung above him. He was a glance from God. Zora Neale Hurston
She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman. Zora Neale Hurston
Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time. Zora Neale Hurston
I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her."
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first..."
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good..."
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners. Zora Neale Hurston
Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore. Zora Neale Hurston
Ah know all dem sitters-and-talkers worry they guts into fiddle strings till dey find out whut we been talkin' 'bout. Dat's all right, Pheoby, tell 'em. Dey goingtuh make 'miration 'cause mah love didn't work lak they love, if dey ever had any... love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every... Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "He looked like the love thoughts of women."
He looked like the love thoughts of women. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "Gods always love the people who make em."
Gods always love the people who make em. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So..."
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place. Zora Neale Hurston

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