Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im. Zora Neale Hurston More Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston More Quotes From Zora Neale Hurston I regret all of my books. Zora Neale Hurston i-regretregretbook You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die. Zora Neale Hurston diesmen Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths. Zora Neale Hurston slogansifsmouths I am the kind of a woman that likes to move on mentally from point to point, and I like for my man to be there way ahead of me. Then if he is strong and honest, it goes on from there. Good looks are not essential, just extra added attraction. Zora Neale Hurston strongmenmoving And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate. Zora Neale Hurston blackwhitethinking The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. Zora Neale Hurston parlorbedroomspirit When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to. Zora Neale Hurston nicepeoplelooks Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun. Zora Neale Hurston townssunmorning The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty. Zora Neale Hurston haitianlovablepeople When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous. Zora Neale Hurston glamorousdrawsmen The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody toassociate with me who does not wish me near them? Zora Neale Hurston selforderpeople So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation. Zora Neale Hurston jamaicagenerationsculture Africa has her mouth on Moses. Zora Neale Hurston mosesmouths I was born in a Negro town. Zora Neale Hurston birthtownsrace To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest. Zora Neale Hurston bellyharderkindness [Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience. Zora Neale Hurston quotationsmadelong The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got. Zora Neale Hurston liquorpolitics When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism. Zora Neale Hurston ambitionracismworld I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief. Zora Neale Hurston african-americanmothernative-american Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt! Zora Neale Hurston loving-lifequiltslove-is
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