Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance.

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

Tags: Fear, Off, Drive

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Tags: Men, Person, Kind

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Tags: Blessings, Dream, Few

Zora Neale Hurston

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Tags: Hate, Wish, Less

Zora Neale Hurston

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

Tags: Morning, Live, Without

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Tags: Live, Nothing, Losing

Zora Neale Hurston

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.

Tags: Feeling, Pay, Abuse

Zora Neale Hurston

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Tags: Difficult, Bread, Hunger

Zora Neale Hurston

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

Tags: Ocean, Movement, Importance

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Tags: Great, Same, Truly

Zora Neale Hurston