Quotes About Influence

Gods always behave like the people who created them.

It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no.

Where is de house where de mouse is de leader?

Janie, Ah hope God may kill me, if Ah'm lyin'. Nobody else on earth kin hold uh candle tuh you, baby. You got de keys to de kingdom.

He done taught me de maiden language all over.

The town had a basketful of feelings good and bad about Joe's positions and possessions, but none had the temerity to challenge him. They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment.

Well, Ah see Mouth-Almighty is still sittin' in de same place. And Ah reckon they got me up in they mouth now.

It connected itself with other vaguely felt matters that had struck her outside observation and buried themselves in her flesh.

Zora and her daughters are a tradition-within-the-tradition, a black woman's voice.

He had a bow-down command in his face, and every step he took made the thing more tangible.

The Estate of Zora Neale Hurston would like to thank those people who have worked so hard over the years in introducing new generations of readers to the work of Zora Neale Hurston. We are indebted to Robert Hemenway, Alice Walker, and all the Modern Language Association folks who helped usher in Zora's rediscovery.

She was a wind on the ocean. She moved men, but the helm determined the port.

It's bad to have some power, but not enough.

She must look on herself as the bell-cow, the other women were the gang.

There was no doubt that the town respected him and even admired him in a way. But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.

Tea Cake love me in blue, so Ah wears it. Jody ain't never in his life picked out no color for me.

How could the recipient of two Guggenheims and the author of four novels, a dozen short stories, two musicals, two books on black mythology, dozens of essays, and a prizewinning autobiography virtually 'disappear' from her readership for three full decades?

Many people aren't aware of the teachings of Elijah Muhammad who taught some of our most significant conscious, black thinkers of our times. "He

I appreciated Aaliyah's artistry. We'll never have another like her.

Abba and me, we were the 70s.

America must not abdicate its global leadership role in the climate crisis to countries like China.

A message you abhor has to be trumped with a more powerful one.

There is no power above people power.