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Zora Neale Hurston

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Love, I find, is like singing.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#singing #love

Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#prayer #love

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#experience #wisdom #youth #age

You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#love

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#change

Mystery is the essence of divinity


— Zora Neale Hurston


#inspirational

And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#janie #men #mothers #men

Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#life #life

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#dinners #finds #good #great #love

No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.


— Zora Neale Hurston


#business






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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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