Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

7 quotes from 7 authors

When you step into Zora Neale Hurston’s world, her words pull you into a playful yet probing mindset. Seven distinct voices celebrate curiosity as research, tease the mystery of death, and champion bold storytelling. Readers who love African American literature, folklore, or the Harlem Renaissance will find richer troves nearby.

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“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. — Zora Neale Hurston”

Gothelf, Jeff

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“One day you see a man walking down the road, the next day you come to his yard and find him dead...…

Charles A. Cornell

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“there in the fresh young darkness close together. Pheoby eager to feel and do through Janie, but hating to show her zest…

Janet Mock

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Zora Neale Hurston said fear is the greatest emotion and I said, 'No my dear sister.' Fear will make us move to…

Sonia Sanchez

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“Reading in an essay by a white folklorist that Hurston was buried in an unmarked grave, Walker decided that such a fate…

Zora Neale Hurston

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I encourage everyone to read James Baldwin and Malcom X and Aldous Huxley. To read Primo Levi. To read 'Silent Spring.' To…

Zoe Kazan

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All black art is always judged to illuminate our experience and prove that our stories and our history and our lives matter.…

Cheo Hodari Coker

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