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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
Zora Neale Hurston
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
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
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston
I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
Zora Neale Hurston
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
Zora Neale Hurston
The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.
Zora Neale Hurston
anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
Zora Neale Hurston
Distance is the only cure for certain diseases.
Zora Neale Hurston
Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
Zora Neale Hurston
Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
Zora Neale Hurston
I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
Zora Neale Hurston
So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.
Zora Neale Hurston
I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.
Zora Neale Hurston
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
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
Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.
Zora Neale Hurston
Africa has her mouth on Moses.
Zora Neale Hurston
Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.
Zora Neale Hurston
But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.
Zora Neale Hurston
