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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: "I regret all of my books."
I regret all of my books. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like..."
Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain Zora Neale Hurston
Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "There is something about poverty that smells like death."
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Zora Neale Hurston
The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposed-to-be conquerors, rolling the dikes, rolling the houses, rolling the people in the houses along with other timbers. The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel. Zora Neale Hurston
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die..."
If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all. Zora Neale Hurston
It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say..."
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and..."
Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat! Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new..."
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress."
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her."
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her. Zora Neale Hurston
So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day. Zora Neale Hurston
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands. Zora Neale Hurston

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