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Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

Zora Neale Hurston quotes

American Playwright January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960

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John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is what they believe, and so they do not worry. They go on and laugh and sing. Things are bound to come out right tomorrow. That is the secret of Negro song and laughter. Zora Neale Hurston
It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "one finds great comfort in good dinners"
one finds great comfort in good dinners Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town..."
Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange..."
So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time. Zora Neale Hurston
She knew things that nobody had ever told her... She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pastor of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one every sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making. Zora Neale Hurston
For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth. Zora Neale Hurston
And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate. Zora Neale Hurston
Anyone who looked more white folkish than herself was better than she was in her criteria, therefore it was right that they should be cruel to her at times, just as she was cruel to those more negroid than herself in direct ratio to their negroness. Zora Neale Hurston
Are you so simple as to assume that the Big Surrender banished the concept of human slavery from the earth? What is the principle of slavery? Only the literal buying and selling of human flesh on the block? That was only an outside symbol. Real slavery is couched in the desire and the efforts of any man or community to live and advance their interests at the expense of the lives and interests of others. All of the outward signs come out of that. Zora Neale Hurston
When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief."
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief. Zora Neale Hurston
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "It costs you something to do good!"
It costs you something to do good! Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the..."
She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop. Zora Neale Hurston

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