Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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“Gods always love the people who make ‘em.”
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“Anybody depending on somebody else’s gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.”
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“I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.”
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“So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.”
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“When a Jamaican is born of a black woman and some English or Scotsman, the black mother is literally and figuratively kept out of sight as far as possible, but no one is allowed to forget that white father, however questionable the circumstances of birth.”
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