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Zora Neale Hurston

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It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.


— Zora Neale Hurston


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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.


— Zora Neale Hurston


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No man may make another free.


— Zora Neale Hurston


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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.


— Zora Neale Hurston


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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.


— Zora Neale Hurston


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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.


— Zora Neale Hurston


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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.


— Zora Neale Hurston


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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.


— Zora Neale Hurston


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It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.


— Zora Neale Hurston


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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.


— Zora Neale Hurston


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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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