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Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Maybe if she had known some other way to try, she might have made his face different. But what the other way could be, she had no idea.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “You cannot avoid hearing drums in Haiti.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “The deeply satisfying aspect of the rediscovery of Zora Neale Hurston is that black women generated it primarily to establish a maternal literary ancestry.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “It connected itself with other vaguely felt matters that had struck her outside observation and buried themselves in her flesh.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Charlotte Mason considered herself not only a patron to black writers and artists, but also a guardian of black folklore. She believed it her duty to protect it from those whites who, having “no more interesting things to investigate among themselves,” were grabbing “in every direction material that by right belongs entirely to another race.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Death, that strange being with the huge square toes who lived way in the west. The great one who lived in the straight house like a platform without sides to it, and without a roof. what need has Death for a cover, and what winds can blow against him? He stands in his high house that overlooks the world. Stands watchful and motionless all day with his sword drawn back, waiting for the messenger to bid him come.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Jeff Bruce threw in. “Speakin’ of winds, he’s de wind and.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “I was born in a Negro town.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Tain’t no trouble tuh say whut’s already so.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “While I was in the research field in 1929, the idea of Jonah’s Gourd Vine came to me. I had written a few short stories, but the idea of attempting a book seemed so big that I gazed at it in the quiet of the night, but hid it away from even myself in daylight.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “She had been getting ready for her journey to the horizons in search of people; it was important to all the world that she should find them and they find her. But she had been whipped like a cur dog, and run off down a back road after things.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “For Zora Neale Hurston has been “rediscovered” in a manner unprecedented in the black tradition:.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Perhaps it is natural for the god of the poor to be akin to the god of the dead, for there is something about poverty that smells of death.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Hurston did make significant parts of herself up, like a masquerader putting on a disguise for the ball, like a character in her fictions.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Being under my own roof, and my personality not invaded by others makes a lot of difference in my outlook on life and everything. Oh, to be once more alone in a house!”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Put simply, Hurston wrote well when she was comfortable, wrote poorly when she was not.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Though attacked by Wright and virtually ignored by his literary heirs, Hurston’s ideas about language and craft undergird many of the most successful contributions to Afro-American literature that followed.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “These two “speech communities,” as it were, are Hurston’s great sources of inspiration not only in her novels but also in her autobiography.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “I did not know then, as I know now, that people are prone to build a statue of the kind of person it pleases them to be. And few people want to be forced to ask themselves, “What is there is no me like my statue?” The thing to do is to grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Hurston thought this idea degrading, its propagation a trap, and railed against it. It was, she said, upheld by “the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a dirty deal.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Hurston moves in and out of these distinct voices effortlessly, seamlessly, just as she does in Their Eyes to chart Janie’s coming to consciousness. It is this usage of a divided voice, a double voice unreconciled, that strikes me as her great achievement, a verbal analogue of her double experiences as a woman in a male-dominated world and as a black person in a nonblack world, a woman writer’s revision of W. E. B. Du Bois’s metaphor of “double-consciousness” for the hyphenated African-American.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Most people is thin-brained.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “We Afficans try raise our chillun right. When dey say we ign’nant we go together and build de school house. Den de county send us a teacher. We Afficky men doan wait lak de other colored people till de white folks gittee ready to build us a school. We build one for ourself den astee de county to send us de teacher.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “But nothin’ can stop you from wishin’.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “A woman robbed of her love is more terrible than an army with banners.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Janie stood where he left her for unmeasured time and thought. She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just some thing she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “She must lend her ears to the sounds of mighty words boiling out of futile men. She must bear something in male form, for after all that is what she was born for – a passageway for boy children.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “How can a nation speak with one voice if they are not one? Don’t forget, now. If you do, you encourage all the stupid but greedy and ambitious to sprout like toadstools and that’s the end of right and reason in the state. Coddling and wheedling is not going to stop these destroyers. To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “We proaged on thru the woods that was full of magnolia, pine, cedar, oak, cypress, hickory, and many kinds of trees whose names I do not know. It is hard to know all the trees in Florida.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Nothing is so desolate as a place where life has been and gone.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Those full, lazy eyes with the lashes curling sharply away like drawn scimitars.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “I am striving desperately for a toe-hold on the world.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “The heart of man is an ever empty abyss into which the whole world shall fall and be swallowed up.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Life, inexhaustible, goes on. And we do too. Carrying our wounds and our medicines as we go.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “The one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “She had found a jewel down inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “He’s a whirlwind among breezes.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “No, we will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual. If you haven’t got it, you can’t show it. If you have got it, you can’t hide it. That is one of the strongest laws God ever made.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “The American Dream is a major theme in the narrative of racial difference. The shadow side of that dream, which is not talked about, entails the plundering of racial “Others.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “The Fon of Dahomey was foremost among those African peoples who resisted the suppression. Not only was the internal enslavement of their prisoners perceived as essential to their traditions and customs, the external sell of their prisoners afforded.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “I fail to see where it would have been more uplifting for them to have been inside a church listening to a man urging them to ‘contemplate the sufferings of our Lord,’ which is just another way of punishing one’s self for nothing. It is very much better for them to climb the rocks in their bare clean feet and meet Him face to face in their search for the eternal in beauty.”
Zora Neale Hurston Quote: “Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembrance of the victors.”
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