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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
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“anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!”

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Fuente: Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings

“The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.”

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Zora Neale Hurston libro Seraph on the Suwanee

Fuente: Seraph on the Suwanee

“Pheoby, yuh got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo' papa and yo' mama and nobody else can't tell yuh and show yuh. 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.”

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Zora Neale Hurston libro Their Eyes Were Watching God

Fuente: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Contexto: "Well, Ah see Mouth-Almighty is still sittin' in de same place. And Ah reckon they got me up in they mouth now.""Yes indeed. You know if you pass some people and don't speak tuh suit 'em dey got tuh go way back in yo' life and see whut you ever done. They know mo' 'bout yuh than you do yo' self. They done 'heard' 'bout you just what they hope done happened.""If God don't think no mo' 'bout 'em than Ah do, they's a lost ball in de high grass."

Janie and Phoeby, Ch. 1, p. 16.

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

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Zora Neale Hurston

How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)
Fuente: Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings
Contexto: I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to that sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

“Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.”

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Zora Neale Hurston libro Their Eyes Were Watching God

Fuente: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie's ear. Doubt.”

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Zora Neale Hurston libro Their Eyes Were Watching God

Fuente: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Love, I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.”

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Zora Neale Hurston libro Dust Tracks on a Road

Fuente: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 14 : Love, p. 203.

“I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.”

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How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)

“Research is formalized curiosity. 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.”

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Zora Neale Hurston libro Dust Tracks on a Road

Fuente: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 10 : Research, p. 143

“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to that sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”

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How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)

“Then you must tell ’em dat love ain’t somethin’ lak uh grindstone dat’s de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. 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.”

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Zora Neale Hurston libro Their Eyes Were Watching God

Fuente: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 20

“The years took all the fight out of Janie’s face. For a while she thought it was gone from her soul.”

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Zora Neale Hurston libro Their Eyes Were Watching God

Fuente: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 7

“If you haven’t got it, you can’t show it. If you have got it, you can’t hide it.”

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Zora Neale Hurston libro Dust Tracks on a Road

Fuente: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 12 : My People! My People!