Books Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

8 Books quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

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Hurston’s succinct reflections on books showcase her vibrant voice and love for narrative, offering a brief but powerful glimpse into her literary world.

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“Responding to Wright’s critique, Hurston claimed that she had wanted at long last to write a black novel, and “not a treatise…

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Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

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I regret all of my books.

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Perhaps, it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books…

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“Here, finally, was a woman on a quest for her own identity and, unlike so many other questing figures in black literature,…

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I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy.…

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If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than…

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She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.

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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…

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“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…

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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…

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“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…

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Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck…

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Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

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“The woman took the faded shirt and muddy overalls and laid them away from remembrance. It was a weapon against her strength and if…

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“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…

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“Years ago, she had told her girl self to wait for her in the looking glass. It had been a long time since she…

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“Ah jus lak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don’t pee-pee.”

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“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…

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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

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Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer…

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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

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