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Top 400 Zora Neale Hurston Quotes (2024 Update)
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Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “You saw a fluttering fan before her face and magnolia blooms and sleepy lakes under the moonlight when she walked.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “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 Quote: “If you haven’t got it, you can’t show it. If you have got it, you can’t hide it.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “You’se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Don’t you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it’s in the sea, and it’s homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Gods always behave like the people who make them.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Mouths don’t empty themselves unless ears are sympathetic and knowing.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “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 Quote: “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “You heard me. You ain’t blind.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “But stillness was the sleep of swords.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “That though the heart is breaking, happiness can exist in a moment, also. And because the moment in which we live is all the time there really is, we can keep going.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another, but the mud is deaf and dumb. Like all the other tumbling mud-balls, Janie had tried to show her shine.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “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 Quote: “She went on in her overalls. She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Those who love us never leave us alone with our grief.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Every tub sits on its bottom.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Of course he wasn’t dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “The dark obscurity into which her career then lapsed reflects her staunchly independent political stances rather than any deficiency of craft or vision.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “The heart of man is an ever empty abyss into which the whole world shall fall and be swallowed up.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Time makes everything old so the kissing, young darkness became a monstropolous old thing while Janie talked.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Naw, Ah ain’t no young gal no mo’ but den Ah ain’t no old woman neither. Ah reckon Ah looks mah age too. But Ah’m uh woman every inch of me, and Ah know it. Dat’s uh whole lot more’n you kin say. You big-bellies round here and put out a lot of brag, but ’tain’t nothin’ to it but yo’ big voice. Humph! Talkin’ ’bout me lookin’ old! When you pull down yo’ britches, you look lak de change uh life.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Years ago, she had told her girl self to wait for her in the looking glass. It had been a long time since she had remembered. Perhaps she’d better go look. She went over to the dresser and looked hard at her skin and features. The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place. She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair. The weight, the length, the glory was there.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Nanny’s head and face looked like the standing roots of some old tree that had been torn away by storm. Foundation of ancient power that no longer mattered.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “She was a wind on the ocean. She moved men, but the helm determined the port.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.”
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