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Zora Neale Hurston

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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#after #bear #coffee #cream #friends

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#hide #show #those

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#enough #everybody #find #i #impress

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#future #had #inside #laid #past

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#chickens #depending #eat #else #fox

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#beast #broom #drive #fear #grab

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#funny thing #less #live #losing #nerve

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#every #get #ground #her #jump

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#busy #i #i am #i do #knife

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#god #made #more #natural #nothing






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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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