Frases de Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston fue una antropóloga y escritora folklorista norteamericana y una de las figuras más importantes del Renacimiento de Harlem. Su obra literaria, ampliamente reconocida en la actualidad, no fue apreciada mientras estuvo viva y Hurston murió en la pobreza. Su obra más conocida es Their Eyes Were Watching God , obra de contenidos semibiográficos. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. enero 1891 – 28. enero 1960   •   Otros nombres زورا نیل هرستون, Зора Ніл Герстон
Zora Neale Hurston Foto
Zora Neale Hurston: 76   frases 3   Me gusta

Zora Neale Hurston Frases y Citas

Zora Neale Hurston: Frases en inglés

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

Zora Neale Hurston libro Their Eyes Were Watching God

Fuente: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 3, p. 21.

“I love myself when I am laughing… and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”

Fuente: I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... And Then Again: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me.”

How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)
Contexto: Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It is beyond me.
But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small things priceless and worthless. A first-water diamond, an empty spool, bits of broken glass, lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still a little fragrant. In your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the jumble it held — so much like the jumble in the bags, could they be emptied, that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place — who knows?

“Mystery is the essence of divinity”

Zora Neale Hurston libro Dust Tracks on a Road

Fuente: Dust Tracks on a Road

“If you are silent about the pain they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”

Zora Neale Hurston libro Their Eyes Were Watching God

Fuente: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“I am crazy about the idea of Democracy. I want to see how it feels.”

"Crazy for This Democracy" in Negro Digest (December 1945).
Contexto: I accept this idea of democracy. I am all for trying it out. It must be a good thing if everybody praises it like that. If our government has been willing to go to war and sacrifice billions of dollars and millions of men for the idea I think that I ought to give the thing a trial.
The only thing that keeps me from pitching head long into this thing is the presence of numerous Jim Crow laws on the statute books of the nation. I am crazy about the idea of Democracy. I want to see how it feels.

“I accept this idea of democracy. I am all for trying it out.”

"Crazy for This Democracy" in Negro Digest (December 1945).
Contexto: I accept this idea of democracy. I am all for trying it out. It must be a good thing if everybody praises it like that. If our government has been willing to go to war and sacrifice billions of dollars and millions of men for the idea I think that I ought to give the thing a trial.
The only thing that keeps me from pitching head long into this thing is the presence of numerous Jim Crow laws on the statute books of the nation. I am crazy about the idea of Democracy. I want to see how it feels.

“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”

Zora Neale Hurston libro Their Eyes Were Watching God

Fuente: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.”

Zora Neale Hurston libro Their Eyes Were Watching God

Variante: Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
Fuente: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”

Zora Neale Hurston libro Their Eyes Were Watching God

Fuente: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.”

Zora Neale Hurston libro Dust Tracks on a Road

Variante: If you haven’t got it, you can’t show it. If you have got it, you can’t hide it.
Fuente: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 12 : My People! My People!

“Research is formalized curiosity.”

Zora Neale Hurston libro Dust Tracks on a Road

It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.
Fuente: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 10 : Research, p. 143.

“Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.”

Zora Neale Hurston libro Their Eyes Were Watching God

Variante: There is two things everybody got to find out for theirselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
Fuente: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.”

Zora Neale Hurston libro Their Eyes Were Watching God

Fuente: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.”

Zora Neale Hurston libro Their Eyes Were Watching God

Fuente: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.”

Zora Neale Hurston libro Their Eyes Were Watching God

Fuente: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.”

Zora Neale Hurston libro Their Eyes Were Watching God

Fuente: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.”

Fuente: Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

“Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.”

Zora Neale Hurston libro Their Eyes Were Watching God

Fuente: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.”

Zora Neale Hurston libro Their Eyes Were Watching God

Fuente: Their Eyes Were Watching God