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Zora Neale Hurston

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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#love

Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#nature

It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#funny

Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain


— Zora Neale Hurston


#simile #simile

Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#life #sorrow #wrapped-in-rainbows #life

The varicolored cloud dust that the sun has stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#beauty

She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#poignant #business

Now, women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#hurston #memory #men-and-women #dreams

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#always #like #live #look #people

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!


— Zora Neale Hurston


#pray #sweat #work






About Zora Neale Hurston

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Did you know about Zora Neale Hurston?

Her father later became mayor of the town which Hurston would glorify in her stories as a place where African Americans could live as they desired independent of white society. ) (Library of America 1995) ISBN 978-0-940450-84-4
Barracoon (1999)
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States (2001)
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters collected and edited by Carla Kaplan (2003)
Collected Plays (2008)


Film and television
In 1989 PBS aired a drama based on Hurston's life entitled Zora is My Name!. Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness and an attempt to avoid by trickery the rules of the game as laid down.

Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 publiZora Neale Hurstond short stories plays and essays Zora Neale Hurston is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston (January 7 1891 – January 28 1960) was an American folklorist anthropologist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance.

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