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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
— 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
Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Put simply, Hurston wrote well when she was comfortable, wrote poorly when she was not.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Ah'm uh man even if Ah is de Mayor. But de mayor's wife is somethin' different again.
— Zora Neale Hurston
God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Just g'wan back home and set down on yo' royal diasticutis and say nothin'.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Every tub sits on its bottom.
— Zora Neale Hurston
not enough to make a flea a waltzing jacket.
— Zora Neale Hurston
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.
— Zora Neale Hurston
A little seed of fear was growing into a tree.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Tea Cake went out and wandered around. Saw the hand of horror on everything.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Love, I find, is like singing.
— Zora Neale Hurston
But 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
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
— Zora Neale Hurston
It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
— Zora Neale Hurston
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
— Zora Neale Hurston
I love myself when I am laughing ... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Ah jus' know dat God snatched me out de fire through you. And Ah loves yuh and feel glad.
— Zora Neale Hurston
People can be slave ships in shoes.
— 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
I love myself when I am laughing.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Africa has her mouth on Moses.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.
— Zora Neale Hurston
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
I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston's "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
— Claudia Rankine
Such as I am, I am a precious gift.
— Zora Neale Hurston
He has only heard what I felt.
— Zora Neale Hurston
But I ain't puttin' it in de street. Ah'm tellin' you.''Ah jus lak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don't pee-pee. — Zora Neale Hurston
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
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
— Zora Neale Hurston
I regret all of my books.
— Zora Neale Hurston
You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Pheoby's hungry listening helped Janie to tell her story.
— Zora Neale Hurston
On the whole I feel like a brown paper bag.
— Zora Neale Hurston
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
— Zora Neale Hurston
But nothin' can stop you from wishin'.
— Zora Neale Hurston
She must talk to a man who was ten immensities away.
— Zora Neale Hurston
You got to go there to know there.
— 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
Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
— Zora Neale Hurston
The varicolored cloud dust that the sun has stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Now, Pheoby, don't feel too mean wid de rest of 'em 'cause dey's parched up from not knowin' things.
— Zora Neale Hurston
It looked so quiet and peaceful around. But the stillness was the sleep of swords.
— Zora Neale Hurston
A man is up against a hard game when he must die to beat it.
— Zora Neale Hurston