If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. Zora Neale Hurston More Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston More Quotes From Zora Neale Hurston There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them. Zora Neale Hurston human-beings humans inspirational She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her. Zora Neale Hurston found She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over. Zora Neale Hurston flesh dream blood I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads. Zora Neale Hurston beads feminine race I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background........Beside the waters of the Hudson" I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again." How It Feels to Be Colored Me Zora Neale Hurston rocks race dark I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death. Zora Neale Hurston busy mind want Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Zora Neale Hurston eye beautiful beauty Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association. Zora Neale Hurston pride race teacher An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. Zora Neale Hurston envious ears heart it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life! Zora Neale Hurston laughter hate tears Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil. Zora Neale Hurston veils everyday inspiring She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. Zora Neale Hurston voice dust roots Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear. Zora Neale Hurston laughing boys mean When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners. Zora Neale Hurston dinner comfort love It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on. Zora Neale Hurston hopeful hope wish Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. Zora Neale Hurston i-can He looked like the love thoughts of women. Zora Neale Hurston love-thoughts eyes-watching She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman. Zora Neale Hurston dream people fall She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen. Zora Neale Hurston saving-up feelings men It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States. Zora Neale Hurston gender curious united-states
