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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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Zora N. Hurston
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More quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
Zora Neale Hurston
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston
I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.
Zora Neale Hurston
It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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
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
Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
Zora Neale Hurston
Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.
Zora Neale Hurston
Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
Zora Neale Hurston
I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.
Zora Neale Hurston
Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
Zora Neale Hurston
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
Zora Neale Hurston
She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
Zora Neale Hurston
...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.
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
Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.
Zora Neale Hurston
Gods always love the people who make 'em.
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
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
Zora Neale Hurston
