Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
the drunk

Zora Neale Hurston Novelist

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Jan 7, 1891
  • Died: Jan 28, 1960

Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

In addition to new editions of her work being published after a revival of interest in her in 1975, her manuscript Every Tongue Got to Confess, a collection of folktales gathered in the 1920s, was published posthumously after being discovered in the Smithsonian archives.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

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

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

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

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

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

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

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

There is something about poverty that smells like death.