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
“anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!”
Fonte: Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings
“The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.”
Zora Neale Hurston livro Seraph on the Suwanee
Fonte: Seraph on the Suwanee
Zora Neale Hurston livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
Fonte: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Contexto: "Well, Ah see Mouth-Almighty is still sittin' in de same place. And Ah reckon they got me up in they mouth now.""Yes indeed. You know if you pass some people and don't speak tuh suit 'em dey got tuh go way back in yo' life and see whut you ever done. They know mo' 'bout yuh than you do yo' self. They done 'heard' 'bout you just what they hope done happened.""If God don't think no mo' 'bout 'em than Ah do, they's a lost ball in de high grass."
Janie and Phoeby, Ch. 1, p. 16.
“No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)
Fonte: Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings
Contexto: 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 that sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal. 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 livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
Fonte: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
Fonte: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston livro Dust Tracks on a Road
Fonte: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 14 : Love, p. 203.
Zora Neale Hurston livro Dust Tracks on a Road
Fonte: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 10 : Research, p. 143
How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)
Zora Neale Hurston livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
Fonte: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 20
Zora Neale Hurston livro Their Eyes Were Watching God
Fonte: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 7
“If you haven’t got it, you can’t show it. If you have got it, you can’t hide it.”
Zora Neale Hurston livro Dust Tracks on a Road
Fonte: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 12 : My People! My People!
