619 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

Jeff Bruce threw in. “Speakin’ of winds, he’s de wind and.

The only man on earth who has in his heart the memory of his African home; the horrors of a slave raid; the barracoon; the Lenten tones of slavery; and who has sixty-seven years of freedom in a foreign land behind him.

These two “speech communities,” as it were, are Hurston’s great sources of inspiration not only in her novels but also in her autobiography.

Ah done growed ten feet higher from jus’ listenin’ tuh you, Janie. Ah ain’t satisfied with mahself no mo’. Ah means tuh make Sam take me fishin’ wid him after this.

Things like that gave me the first glimmering of the universal female gospel that all good traits and leanings come from the mother’s side.

It connected itself with other vaguely felt matters that had struck her outside observation and buried themselves in her flesh.

He cut nine hairs out of the mole on her head for luck and went off happy.

Besides she liked being lonesome for a change. This freedom feeling was fine. These men didn’t represent a thing she wanted to know about.

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.