Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

…she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.

Dark

Doors

Spy

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..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn’t know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. .. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.

Blue

Dust

Wind

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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Bigs

Distance

Insightful

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Africa has her mouth on Moses.

Moses

Mouths

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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.

Fear

Flower

Real

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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

Ears

Envious

Heart

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

Chickens

Foxes

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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.

Coward

Hurt

Revenge

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But as de old folk always say, Ah’m born but Ah ain’t dead. No tellin’ whut Ah’m liable tuh do yet.

Born

Folks

Liable

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Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.

Morning

Sun

Towns

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