Quotes About Hurston

Perhaps Hurston saw in her mother, Lucy, a version of Persephone, who is so missed when she's gone that the world literally starts to die. This type of grief, as Toni Morrison writes in Sula , has no top and no bottom, just circles and circles of sorrow.

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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.

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