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Zora Neale Hurston
January 7, 1891 - January 28, 1960
Nationality: American
Category: Dramatist
Subcategory: American Dramatist

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

   

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

   

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

   

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

   

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 sword in my hands.

   

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

   

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

   

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.

   

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

   

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

   

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

   

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

   

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

   

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

   

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

   

It costs you something to do good!

   

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.

   

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

   

I regret all of my books.

   

Gods always love the people who make em.

   

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