I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me. Zora Neale Hurston More Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston More Quotes From Zora Neale Hurston To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass. Zora Neale Hurston jamaica white class He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different. Zora Neale Hurston different average world anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something! Zora Neale Hurston folks scared lying Distance is the only cure for certain diseases. Zora Neale Hurston cures distance disease Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. Zora Neale Hurston life people thinking When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking. Zora Neale Hurston sky clouds doors They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down. Zora Neale Hurston eyes-watching towns Every tub sits on its bottom. Zora Neale Hurston tubs bottom The inference is, that God has restated the superiority of the West. God always does like that when a thousand white people surround one dark one. Dark people are always "bad" when they do not admit the Divine Plan like that. A certain Javanese man who sticks up for Indonesian Independence is very lowdown by the papers, and suspected of being a Japanese puppet. Zora Neale Hurston white dark men 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 having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no. Zora Neale Hurston influence differences different Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die. Zora Neale Hurston cry use way The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposed-to-be conquerors, rolling the dikes, rolling the houses, rolling the people in the houses along with other timbers. The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel. Zora Neale Hurston sea wind two The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting. Zora Neale Hurston ambition exciting games The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet… From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything. Zora Neale Hurston flower air morning ..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. .. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She 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. Zora Neale Hurston dust blue wind Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot. Zora Neale Hurston affection spots spirit Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the sun with his seven horns of flame is the father of life. Zora Neale Hurston flames boys father It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful. Zora Neale Hurston gratitude grateful law God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble. Zora Neale Hurston noble tree beauty It costs you something to do good! Zora Neale Hurston cost
