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Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston

anthropologist, historian, novelist, writer, journalist, folklorist, civil rights advocate, playwright, film director

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1891  – 1960

Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, an autobiography, ethnographies, and many essays. Some of her work, namely Tell My Horse (1937), explored ethnomusicological methods of study long before there were formal boundaries for the discipline, especially not boundaries that included the respectful study of communities of color. Hurston's unique background and exceptional approach to anthropology laid key foundations for the growth of ethnography, literature, and Africana Studies.

All Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

“Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“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.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.”
— 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.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. 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. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“It was the meanest moment of eternity.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.”
— 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.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
— 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.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“One is surprised by the passage of time and the distance travelled, but one may not go back.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.”
— Zora Neale Hurston