So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige? — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“Here, finally, was a woman on a quest for her own identity and, unlike so many other questing figures in black literature,… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“So when we looked at de picture and everybody got pointed out there wasn’t nobody left except a real dark little girl… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
She's got those big black eyes with plenty shiny white in them that makes them shine like brand new money and she… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“Reading in an essay by a white folklorist that Hurston was buried in an unmarked grave, Walker decided that such a fate… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“Responding to Wright’s critique, Hurston claimed that she had wanted at long last to write a black novel, and “not a treatise… — 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
