Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
Zora Neale Hurston

Confusion, Nation, Body

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

Lovable, Except, Cruelty

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
Zora Neale Hurston

Understand, Talking, Unless

People can be slave-ships in shoes.
Zora Neale Hurston

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
Zora Neale Hurston

Wish, Distance, Board

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
Zora Neale Hurston

Work, Cry, Pray

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
Zora Neale Hurston

Begins, Draw, Glamorous

Gods always behave like the people who make them.
Zora Neale Hurston

Gods always love the people who make em.
Zora Neale Hurston

I regret all of my books.
Zora Neale Hurston

It costs you something to do good!
Zora Neale Hurston

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
Zora Neale Hurston

Courage, Laughter, Black

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
Zora Neale Hurston

Nature, Great, Honor

There is something about poverty that smells like death.
Zora Neale Hurston

Death, Poverty, Smells

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
Zora Neale Hurston

Love, Good, Great

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dramatist

Born: January 7, 1891

Died: January 28, 1960

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