Dust Tracks on a Road
A Biography, Memoir, Classics book. My head was full of misty fumes of doubt. Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a...
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- Pages: 277 pages
- ISBN: 9780060965679 / 60965673
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So I do not pray. I accept the means at my disposal for working out my destiny. It seems to me that I have been given a mind and will power for that very purpose. Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road // 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 the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. 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 worldI am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road // I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on. Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road //
Oh the magic and mystery that was Zora Neale Hurston. An indescribable childhood, deplorable kindred, a love life that was itself a puzzle. (In fact she does admit that her true love story with her second husband was somehow interwoven into her novel: "I tried to embalm all the tenderness of my passion for him in Their Eyes Were Watching... Theres a lot of good stuff in here: Hurstons early life as a wide-eyed, scrappy little girl; growing up into an intrepid young woman, hungry to know the world; finding great music and great literature.And she sure does know her way around a turn of phrase. Look at these gems:"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots.""To... anyone
