Zora Neale Hurston libro I loro occhi guardavano Dio
cap. XX, p. 285
I loro occhi guardavano Dio
Zora Neale Hurston è stata una scrittrice e studiosa del folklore statunitense.
La Hurston fece parte del movimento dell'Harlem Renaissance, scrisse quattro romanzi e pubblicò più di cinquanta racconti, sceneggiature teatrali e saggi. È conosciuta soprattutto per il suo romanzo del 1937 I loro occhi guardavano Dio. Nel 2002 lo studioso Molefi Kete Asante l'ha inclusa nella lista dei 100 più grandi afroamericani. Wikipedia

Zora Neale Hurston libro I loro occhi guardavano Dio
cap. XX, p. 285
I loro occhi guardavano Dio
Zora Neale Hurston libro I loro occhi guardavano Dio
cap. XIX, p. 281
I loro occhi guardavano Dio
“Due sono le cose che ognuno deve far da sé: avvicinarsi a Dio e imparare a vivere la propria vita.”
Zora Neale Hurston libro I loro occhi guardavano Dio
cap. XX, p. 285
I loro occhi guardavano Dio
“anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!”
Origine: Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings
“The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.”
Zora Neale Hurston libro Seraph on the Suwanee
Origine: Seraph on the Suwanee
Zora Neale Hurston libro I loro occhi guardavano Dio
Origine: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Contesto: "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.”
How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)
Origine: Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings
Contesto: 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.
Zora Neale Hurston libro I loro occhi guardavano Dio
Origine: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston libro I loro occhi guardavano Dio
Origine: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston libro Dust Tracks on a Road
Origine: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 14 : Love, p. 203.
Zora Neale Hurston libro Dust Tracks on a Road
Origine: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 10 : Research, p. 143
How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)
Zora Neale Hurston libro I loro occhi guardavano Dio
Origine: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 20
Zora Neale Hurston libro I loro occhi guardavano Dio
Origine: 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.”
Zora Neale Hurston libro Dust Tracks on a Road
Origine: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 12 : My People! My People!