Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960) was an American writer and novelist. She also wrote short stories. This African American writer is also known for portraying black experience, folk images ans speech in her works.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Silence is all the genius a fool has.

- Moses, Man of the Mountain

• There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves.
- Dust Tracks on a Road

• Women forget all those things they don't want to remember,

and remember everything they don't want to forget.
- Their Eyes Were Watching God

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