Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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
Anytime
Catch
Folks
Scared
Lying
Something
More quotes by 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
Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
Zora Neale Hurston
every heart has its graveyard.
Zora Neale Hurston
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston
Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering
Zora Neale Hurston
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
Zora Neale Hurston
I regret all of my books.
Zora Neale Hurston
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
Zora Neale Hurston
[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.
Zora Neale Hurston
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
Zora Neale Hurston
Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.
Zora Neale Hurston
The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet… From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.
Zora Neale Hurston
I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.
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
The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.
Zora Neale Hurston
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
Zora Neale Hurston
If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony.
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.
Zora Neale Hurston
It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.
Zora Neale Hurston
It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no.
Zora Neale Hurston
