When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous. Zora Neale Hurston More Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston More Quotes From Zora Neale Hurston Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her. Zora Neale Hurston caketeason I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background. Zora Neale Hurston racismracewhite I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet. Zora Neale Hurston emptinessyears It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that. Zora Neale Hurston askingeducationpay Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept. Zora Neale Hurston rockswhitedark When we sing the blues, we're singin' out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues. Zora Neale Hurston hurtfeelingsheart The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual. Zora Neale Hurston race-relationsafrican-americanjustice I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living. Zora Neale Hurston painsorrylife Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see. Zora Neale Hurston white-manoceanmen My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe. Zora Neale Hurston sense-of-humorraceway So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time. Zora Neale Hurston janieorangegreen It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands . . . They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God. Zora Neale Hurston walleyedark I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself. Zora Neale Hurston tonguemouthswater My head was full of misty fumes of doubt. Zora Neale Hurston mistydoubt Love makes your soul crawl out of it's hiding place Zora Neale Hurston 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. Zora Neale Hurston Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. Zora Neale Hurston Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. Zora Neale Hurston Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural. Zora Neale Hurston personmorenothinggod
