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Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
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I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.
Zora Neale Hurston
My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
Zora Neale Hurston
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.
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
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Zora Neale Hurston
When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.
Zora Neale Hurston
Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
Zora Neale Hurston
So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.
Zora Neale Hurston
For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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There is something about poverty that smells like death.
Zora Neale Hurston
It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.
Zora Neale Hurston
you can't beat me and my prayers!
Zora Neale Hurston
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
Zora Neale Hurston
I know that nothing is destructible things merely change forms.
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
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
Zora Neale Hurston
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Zora Neale Hurston
Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.
Zora Neale Hurston
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
Zora Neale Hurston
