Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Bottom
Either
Everybody
Negroes
Individual
Carries
Else
Carrie
Nature
Internals
Would
Internal
Like
Drive
More quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
Zora Neale Hurston
Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.
Zora Neale Hurston
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
Zora Neale Hurston
He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
Zora Neale Hurston
God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.
Zora Neale Hurston
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
Zora Neale Hurston
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
Zora Neale Hurston
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.
Zora Neale Hurston
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
Zora Neale Hurston
Love, I find, is like singing.
Zora Neale Hurston
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.
Zora Neale Hurston
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
Zora Neale Hurston
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
Zora Neale Hurston
It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.
Zora Neale Hurston
I know that nothing is destructible things merely change forms.
Zora Neale Hurston
I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks.
Zora Neale Hurston
She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
Zora Neale Hurston
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Zora Neale Hurston
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
Zora Neale Hurston
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
Zora Neale Hurston
