Frasi di Zora Neale Hurston
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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  

✵ 7. Gennaio 1891 – 28. Gennaio 1960   •   Altri nomi زورا نیل هرستون, Зора Ніл Герстон
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“mulatto rice.”

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston: Frasi in inglese

“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

“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.”

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.

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

Zora Neale Hurston libro I loro occhi guardavano Dio

Origine: 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.”

Zora Neale Hurston libro Dust Tracks on a Road

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

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

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!

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