black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.

Zora Neale Hurston

If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Enjoyment Kill Pain Silence Yourself
My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Family Humor Myself Nation See
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Kill Life
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself People See
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Purpose Search
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Thinking Word
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

Friendship Live Morning Myself
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Grief Herself
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Hide Himself Love Place Soul
Love, I find, is like singing.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Love Myself One Liner Sing
People can be slave ships in shoes.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

People Slave
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Hide Place Soul
Truth is a letter from courage!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Courage Truth
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Herself
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself
Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Act Dream Forget Remember Truth Woman

She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes