Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.
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
Faith
Long
Legged
Hasn
Eyes
Eye
More quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
Love, I find, is like singing.
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
want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.
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
Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
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
I was born in a Negro town.
Zora Neale Hurston
It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
Zora Neale Hurston
Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.
Zora Neale Hurston
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
Zora Neale Hurston
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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 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
Gods always love the people who make 'em.
Zora Neale Hurston
Every tub sits on its bottom.
Zora Neale Hurston
You got to go there to know there.
Zora Neale Hurston
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
Zora Neale Hurston
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
Zora Neale Hurston
