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Zora Neale Hurston

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It costs you something to do good!


— Zora Neale Hurston


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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.


— Zora Neale Hurston


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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.


— Zora Neale Hurston


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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.


— Zora Neale Hurston


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There is something about poverty that smells like death.


— Zora Neale Hurston


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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.


— Zora Neale Hurston


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I regret all of my books.


— Zora Neale Hurston


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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.


— Zora Neale Hurston


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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.


— Zora Neale Hurston


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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.


— Zora Neale Hurston


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Did you know about Zora Neale Hurston?

Her father later became mayor of the town which Hurston would glorify in her stories as a place where African Americans could live as they desired independent of white society. ) (Library of America 1995) ISBN 978-0-940450-84-4
Barracoon (1999)
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States (2001)
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters collected and edited by Carla Kaplan (2003)
Collected Plays (2008)


Film and television
In 1989 PBS aired a drama based on Hurston's life entitled Zora is My Name!. Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness and an attempt to avoid by trickery the rules of the game as laid down.

Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 publiZora Neale Hurstond short stories plays and essays Zora Neale Hurston is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston (January 7 1891 – January 28 1960) was an American folklorist anthropologist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance.

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