Zora Neale Hurston was born in the year 1891 on the 7th of January and is a renowned novelist as well as an anthropologist. However, unfortunately, she never really got the opportunity to enjoy the fame of being one of the most renowned Black writers of all time because she gained most of her popularity after her death in 1960. She showed her brilliant writing skills through novels, short stories as well as plays that depicted the lives of African Americans in the South and the racial prejudices they were subjected to.
The most popular novel of Zora Neale Hurston would be ‘The Eyes Were Watching God’ and other notable works would be ‘Jonah’s Gourd Vine’ as well as ‘Sweat’. She had influenced several people, more so, after her death. Her writings are powerful in empowering people and ensuring they stand up for themselves. During the Harlem renaissance, her poem became really popular. Her work reflected her personality and her values.A woman of great style, she was proud of her Black race and loved to laugh.
Here you would find some of the best quotes from Zora Neale Hurston that would make you fall in love with her work if you have not already. It would also give you a sense of confidence in standing for the right and voicing against the wrong.
Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
- When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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- Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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- Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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- Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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- Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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- Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
Zora Neale Hurston
- Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
Zora Neale Hurston
- Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
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- If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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- 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.
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- Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering.
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- Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder.
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- There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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- She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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- Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
Zora Neale Hurston
- There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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- I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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- Don’t you love nobody better’n you do yo’self. Do, you’ll be dying befo’ yo’ time is out.
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- He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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- She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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- I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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- Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
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- When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.
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- Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
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- Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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- All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.
Zora Neale Hurston
- Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
Zora Neale Hurston
- Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
Zora Neale Hurston
- Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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- A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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- If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself ‘Why?’ afterward than before … There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.
Zora Neale Hurston
- If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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- She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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- Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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- Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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- The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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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 a sword in my hands.
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- The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Conclusion
Therefore, these are some of the top Zora Neale Hurston quotes that have been collected from various sources that have now become staples in literature and different women’s study courses.
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