Racism Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

13 Racism quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

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Zora Neale Hurston’s 13 lines on racism echo her Southern storytelling roots while confronting systemic bias. Her blend of humor, folklore, and sharp insight makes each quote feel like a conversation across time.

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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the…

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I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.

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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

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When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.

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Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.

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“Us colored folks is too envious of one ’nother. Dat’s how come us don’t git no further than us do. Us talks…

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It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will…

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Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning…

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I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to…

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“One white reviewer in 1937 [said he] had difficulty believing that such a town as Eatonville, "inhabited and governed entirely by negroes,"…

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“Got orders from headquarters. They makin' coffins fuh all de white folks. 'Tain't nothin' but cheap pine, but dat's better'n nothin'. Don't…

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“At certain times I have no race. I am me. I belong to no race or time. I am the eternal feminine…

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“There could be something wrong with me because I see Negroes neither better nor worse than any other race. Race pride is…

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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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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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