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Zora Neale Hurston [1891-1960] American

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Dramatist, Novelist

Zora Neale Hurston was an American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Anger, Courage, Dreams, Fear, Friendship, Funny, Future, Gardening, God, Great, Learning, Love, Morning, Nature

Quote	Tags	Rank
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.	Love	101
Gods always behave like the people who make them.		102
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.	Friendship, Morning	103
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.		104
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.	Future	105
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.		106
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.	Anger, Fear	107
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.		108
People can be slave-ships in shoes.		109
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.	God	110
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.		111
It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.		112
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.	Great, Nature	113
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.		114
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.		115
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.		116
Gods always love the people who make em.		117
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.	Courage	118
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.		119
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.		120
Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.		121
It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.	Funny	122
Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.		123
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.	Dreams	124
Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!		125
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.		126
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.		201
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.		202
When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.		203
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.	Gardening	204
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.		205
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.		206
But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.		207
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.	Learning	208
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.		209
I regret all of my books.		210
No man may make another free.		211
There is something about poverty that smells like death.		212
It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.		213
It costs you something to do good!		214

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