Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.
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
Things
Bowed
Town
Towns
Rather
More quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
Zora Neale Hurston
Gods always love the people who make 'em.
Zora Neale Hurston
You got to go there to know there.
Zora Neale Hurston
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
Zora Neale Hurston
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.
Zora Neale Hurston
Such as I am, I am a precious gift.
Zora Neale Hurston
You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.
Zora Neale Hurston
Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering
Zora Neale Hurston
anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
Zora Neale Hurston
[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.
Zora Neale Hurston
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
Zora Neale Hurston
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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
Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is.
Zora Neale Hurston
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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
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
Silence is all the genius a fool has.
Zora Neale Hurston
