Quotes About Zora

This was my first indication of the quality I feel is most characteristic of Zora's work: racial health; a sense of black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings, a sense that is lacking in so much black writing and literature.

Summer left Wellington abruptly and slammed the door on the way out. The shudder sent leaves to the ground all at once, and Zora Belsey had that strange, late-September feeling that somewhere in a small classroom with small chairs an elementary school teacher was waiting for her. It seemed wrong that she should be walking towards town without a shiny tie and a pleated skirt, without a selection of scented erasers. Time is not what it is but how it is felt, and Zora felt no different.

see, it was nice. The fact that the thought

The deeply satisfying aspect of the rediscovery of Zora Neale Hurston is that black women generated it primarily to establish a maternal literary ancestry.

For Zora Neale Hurston has been "rediscovered" in a manner unprecedented in the black tradition:

More people have read Hurston's works since 1975 than did between that date and the publication of her first novel

The mediocre have no importance except through appointment. They feel invaded and defeated by the presence of creative folk among them.

Hurston thought this idea degrading, its propagation a trap, and railed against it. It was, she said, upheld by "the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a dirty deal.

Did marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated? Did marriage compel love like the sun the day?

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