Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.
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
Though
Waters
Water
Sentiments
Speak
Mouth
Wells
Speaking
Well
Tongue
Mouths
Indeed
Friend
Ethel
More quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.
Zora Neale Hurston
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
Zora Neale Hurston
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
Zora Neale Hurston
Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
Zora Neale Hurston
I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
Zora Neale Hurston
Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
Zora Neale Hurston
All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.
Zora Neale Hurston
Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
Zora Neale Hurston
Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
Zora Neale Hurston
But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.
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
It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
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
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
When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to.
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
Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.
Zora Neale Hurston
You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.
Zora Neale Hurston
