Zora Neale Hurston Zitate

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Quelle: Seraph on the Suwanee

Quelle: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Kontext: "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.

How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)
Quelle: Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings
Kontext: 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.

Quelle: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Quelle: Their Eyes Were Watching God

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

How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)

Quelle: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 10 : Research, p. 143

How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)

Quelle: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 20

Quelle: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 7

Quelle: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 12 : My People! My People!