Zora Neale Hurston foi uma folclorista, antropóloga e escritora nascida em Notasulga, Alabama, e educada na Universidade de Howard, Barnard College e Universidade de Columbia . Seus livros hoje em dia fazem muito sucesso. Zora escreveu sua própria biografia.
Zora Neale Hurston livro Dust Tracks on a Road
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.
Dust tracks on a road - página 180, Zora Neale Hurston - HarperPerennial, 1991, ISBN 0060552840, 9780060552848 - 277 páginas
Zora Neale Hurston livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
Fonte: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 20, p. 193.
Contexto: Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.
“It was the meanest moment of eternity.”
Zora Neale Hurston livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
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“… she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see…”
Zora Neale Hurston livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Zora Neale Hurston livro Dust Tracks on a Road
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“He looked like the love thoughts of women.”
Zora Neale Hurston livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Zora Neale Hurston livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
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“Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!”
Zora Neale Hurston livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
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“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun."”
Zora Neale Hurston livro Dust Tracks on a Road
Fonte: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch.2 : My Folks, p. 13.
Contexto: Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun." We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Zora Neale Hurston livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
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“It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”
Zora Neale Hurston livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
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“You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.”
Zora Neale Hurston livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Zora Neale Hurston livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
C. 2, p. 10.
Fonte: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.”
Zora Neale Hurston livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
Fonte: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 1, p. 9.
Zora Neale Hurston livro Dust Tracks on a Road
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“She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.”
Zora Neale Hurston livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Zora Neale Hurston livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
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“My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.”
Zora Neale Hurston livro Dust Tracks on a Road
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Zora Neale Hurston livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
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“Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.”
Zora Neale Hurston livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
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“She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.”
Zora Neale Hurston livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Zora Neale Hurston livro Dust Tracks on a Road
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Zora Neale Hurston livro Dust Tracks on a Road
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