Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
Anthropologist
Civil Rights Advocate
Film Director
Folklorist
Historian
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Zora N. Hurston
Drive
Anger
Inspiring
Happiness
Broom
Fear
Brooms
Harlem
Grab
Beast
More quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.
Zora Neale Hurston
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
Zora Neale Hurston
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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
I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe.
Zora Neale Hurston
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
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
Zora Neale Hurston
I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
Zora Neale Hurston
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
Zora Neale Hurston
anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
Zora Neale Hurston
Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!
Zora Neale Hurston
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
Zora Neale Hurston
Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
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
Love, I find, is like singing.
Zora Neale Hurston
Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.
Zora Neale Hurston
Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.
Zora Neale Hurston
I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
Zora Neale Hurston
Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
Zora Neale Hurston
Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
Zora Neale Hurston
