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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: "Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having..."
Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it."
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it. Zora Neale Hurston
Everytime Ah see uh patch uh roses uh somethin' oversportin' theyselves makin' out they pretty, Ah tell 'em 'Ah want yuh tuh see mah Janie sometime.' You must let de flowers see yuh sometimes, heah, Janie? Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one..."
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with..."
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky. Zora Neale Hurston
Mrs. Turner was a milky sort of a woman that belonged to child-bed. Her shoulders rounded a little, and she must have been conscious of her pelvis because she kept it stuck out in front of her so she could always see it. Tea Cake made a lot of fun about Mrs. Turners shape behind her back. He claimed that she had been shaped up by a cow kicking her from behind. She was an ironing board with things throwed at it. Then that same cow took and stepped in her mouth when she was a baby and left it... Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "Gods always behave like the people who make them."
Gods always behave like the people who make them. Zora Neale Hurston
Ah'll clean 'em, you fry 'em and let's eat,' he said with the assurance of not being refused. They went out into the kitchen and fixed up the hot fish and corn muffins and ate. Then Tea Cake went to the piano without so much as asking and began playing blues and singing, and throwing grins over his shoulder. The sounds lulled Janie to soft slumber and she woke up with Tea Cake combing her hair and scratching the dandruff from her scalp. It made her more comfortable and drowsy. Zora Neale Hurston
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. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "Well, she thought, that big old dawg with the hatred in his..."
Well, she thought, that big old dawg with the hatred in his eyes had killed her after all. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living..."
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. Zora Neale Hurston
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships…pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter’s neck tight enough to choke her…She had found a jewel inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around. But she had been set in the market-place to sell. Zora Neale Hurston
From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep. Zora Neale Hurston
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. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a..."
Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens. Zora Neale Hurston

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