619 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.

When you hungry it is painful but when de belly too full it painful too.

Ah jus’ know dat God snatched me out de fire through you. And Ah loves yuh and feel glad.

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.

Looking, waiting, breathing short with impatience. Waiting for the world to be made.

Hurston writes. “The white people had held my people in slavery in America. They had bought us, it is true and exploited us. But the inescapable fact that stuck in my craw, was: my people had sold me and the white people had bought me. That did away with the folklore I had been brought up on – that the white people had gone to Africa, waved a red handkerchief at the Africans and lured them aboard ship and sailed away.”24.

Hurston embodied a more or less harmonious but nevertheless problematic unity of opposites.

The icy sword of the square-toed one had cut off his breath and left his hands in a pose of agonizing protest.

She went on in her overalls. She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.