Zora Neale Hurston Quotes About Diversity

Quotes about: Diversity

• I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Strong, Hurt, Dirty

  World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

• Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Light, Ducks, Diversity

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

• Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Dark, Rocks, White

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.154, Feminist Press at CUNY

• A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  People, Justice, Diversity

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

• We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Justice, Diversity, Pay

  Zora Neale Hurston (2002). “Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters”, Doubleday Books

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