Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

About Zora Neale Hurston:

Zora Neale Hurston is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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Gods always love the people who make em.

Zora Neale Hurston

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

Zora Neale Hurston

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

Zora Neale Hurston

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

Zora Neale Hurston

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

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

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Zora Neale Hurston

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

Zora Neale Hurston

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

Zora Neale Hurston

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

Zora Neale Hurston

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zora Neale Hurston

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

Zora Neale Hurston

No man may make another free.

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

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

Zora Neale Hurston

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Zora Neale Hurston

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

Zora Neale Hurston

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.

Zora Neale Hurston

I regret all of my books.

Zora Neale Hurston

Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and grovelling submission to those you can't. Once having set up her idols and built altars to the, it was imevitable that she would worship there. It was inevitable that she would accept any inconsistency and...

Zora Neale Hurston

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.

Zora Neale Hurston

Author Bio

  • NameZora Neale Hurston
  • DescriptionAmerican author
  • BornJanuary 7, 1891
  • DiedJanuary 28, 1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAnthropologist; Historian; Author; Novelist
  • WorksTheir Eyes Were Watching God; Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; National Women's Hall Of Fame