I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background…Beside the waters of the Hudson" I feel my race.… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“There could be something wrong with me because I see Negroes neither better nor worse than any other race. Race pride is… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
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… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
“But mostly she lived between her hat and her heels, with her emotional disturbances like shade patterns in the woods—come and gone with the… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
“The woman took the faded shirt and muddy overalls and laid them away from remembrance. It was a weapon against her strength and if… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
“They plan and they fix and they do, and then some kitchen-dwelling fiend slips a scorchy, soggy, tasteless mess into their pots and pans…So… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
“Years ago, she had told her girl self to wait for her in the looking glass. It had been a long time since she… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
“Like the pecking-order in a chicken yard. Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and groveling submission to those you can’t. Once having set… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share
