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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b07c9a9 | Perhaps it is natural for the god of the poor to be akin to the god of the dead, for there is something about poverty that smells of death | religion | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| c4a5779 | I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 65ab486 | you needs uh man." Janie laughed at all these well-wishers because she knew that they knew plenty of women alone; that she was not the first one they had ever seen. But most of the others were poor. Besides she liked being lonesome for a change. This freedom feeling was fine. These men didn't represent a thing she wanted to know about. She had already experienced them..." | single single-woman | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 5157329 | Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 2a5583e | He has only heard what I felt. | music race | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 1be644a | Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 61bb2c6 | Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin' on high, but they wasn't no pulpit for me. Freedom found me wid a baby daughter in mah arms, so Ah said Ah'd take a broom and a cook-pot and throw up a highway through de wilderness for her. She would expound what Ah felt. But somehow she got lost offa de highway and next thing Ah knowed here you was in de world. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 4b4a00b | Naw, Ah ain't no young gal no mo' but den Ah ain't no old woman neither. Ah reckon Ah looks mah age too. But Ah'm uh woman every inch of me, and Ah know it. Dat's uh whole lot more'n you kin say. You big-bellies round here and put out a lot of brag, but 'tain't nothin' to it but yo' big voice. Humph! Talkin' 'bout me lookin' old! When you pull down yo' britches, you look lak de change uh life. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 85e41b2 | Naw! Mah own mind had tuh be squeezed and crowded out tuh make room for yours in me. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 8451d13 | Sometimes it is the other way around. A white person is set down in our midst, but the contrast is just as sharp for me. For instance, when I sit in the drafty basement that is The New World Cabaret with a white person, my color comes. We enter chatting about any little nothing that we have in common and are seated by the jazz waiters. In the abrupt way that jazz orchestras have, this one plunges into a number. It loses no time in circumloc.. | inspirational-attitude | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 84580cc | Janie full of that oldest human longing - self-revelation. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 4209079 | The theme of willful self-creation is especially strong in the writings of Black women.80 The fiction of authors such as Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker revolves around Black female characters who learn to invent themselves after breaking out of the confines of racist and sexist expectations. Black women's autobiographical accounts also describe the process of self-creation, exemplified by Patricia Williams's statement, .. | Dorothy Roberts | ||
| 70e0845 | They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 1a4df5b | Death had found them watching, trying to see beyond seeing. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 75846f4 | They, the men, were saving with the mind what they lost with the eye. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 99e47b2 | You got de keys to de kingdom. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 9f0e6d8 | Packed tight like a case of celery, only much darker than that. They were all against her, she could see. So many were there against her that a light slap from each one of them would have beat her to death. She felt them pelting her with dirty thoughts. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 565c9ff | A man is up against a hard game when he must die to beat it. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 07a3bf2 | So the beginning of this was a woman and she had come back from burying the dead. Not the dead of sick and ailing with friends at the pillow and the feet. She had come back from the sodden and the bloated; the sudden dead, their eyes flung wide open in judgment. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| ddf4242 | There was some more good-natured laughter at the expense of women. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 8392ce8 | they read Hurston not only for the spiritual kinship inherent in such relations but because she used black vernacular speech and rituals, in ways Subtle and various, to chart the coming to consciousness of black women, so glaringly absent in other black fiction. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| fd7c5bb | For the folklore Hurston collected so meticulously as Franz Boas's student at Barnard became metaphors, | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 716517b | He's got uh throne in de seat of his pants. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 21469ac | Six eyes were questioning God. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 3e01d5c | Hurrying, dragging, falling, crying, calling out names hopefully and hopelessly. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 25e9999 | Common danger made common friends. Nothing sought a conquest over the other. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| e7c55c4 | Then she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see, | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| be6fa37 | Janie knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making. | god world | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| a5da0b0 | They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| a77ca79 | Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 23dc572 | the fiend from hell specially sent to lovers arrived at Janie's ear. Doubt. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 2850d4c | You'se something tuh make uh man forgit tuh git old and forgit tuh die. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 9cdd923 | Life, inexhaustible, goes on. And we do too. Carrying our wounds and our medicines as we go. Ours is an amazing, a spectacular, journey in the Americas. It is so remarkable one can only be thankful for it, bizarre as that may sound. Perhaps our planet is for learning to appreciate the extraordinary wonder of life that surrounds even our suffering, and to say Yes, if through the thickest of tears. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| a6a0d8d | He done taught me de maiden language all over. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| a5ddb30 | on. Then Tea Cake would help get supper afterwards. "You don't think Ah'm tryin' tuh git outa takin' keer uh yuh, do yuh, Janie, 'cause Ah ast yuh tuh work long side uh me?" Tea Cake asked her at the end of her first week in the field. "Ah naw, honey. Ah laks it. It's mo' nicer than settin' round dese quarters all day. Clerkin' in dat store wuz hard, but heah, we ain't got nothin' tuh do but do our work and come home and love." | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 7364e6d | Zora Neale Hurston once wrote that there are years that ask questions and there are years that answer them. | Patrisse Khan-Cullors | ||
| 74685a8 | She went on in her overalls. She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 90e2714 | Oh to be a pear tree--any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world! She was sixteen. She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her. Where were the singing bees for her? | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 4ac73de | In a little wind-lull, Tea Cake touched Janie and said, 'Ah reckon you wish now you had of stayed in yo' big house 'way from such as dis, don't yuh?' 'Naw.' 'Naw?' 'Yeah, naw. People don't die till dey time come nohow, don't keer where you at. Ah'm wid mah husband in uh storm, dat's all.' 'Thanky, Ma'am. But 'sposing you wuz tuh die, now. You wouldn't git mad at me for draggin' yuh heah?' 'Naw. We been tuhgether round two years. If you kin.. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 0b0bbad | Janie, Ah hope God may kill me, if Ah'm lyin'. Nobody else on earth kin hold uh candle tuh you, baby. You got de keys to de kingdom. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 35856c3 | No, I do not weep at the world - I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. | racism | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 56d51d4 | But stillness was the sleep of swords. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| ac30518 | Mouths don't empty themselves unless ears are sympathetic and knowing. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 757f136 | 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 the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do t.. | Zora Neale Hurston |