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"I am not tragically colored
There's no great sorrow dammed up in my soul
nor lurking behind my eyes
I do not belong to the sovereign school of ***-hood.
who hold that nature
somehow has given them on them a low down dirty deal
and whose feelings are all hurt about it
You know I do not weep
at the world
I am too busy
sharpening my oyster knife"
NARRATOR: Zora Neale Hurston journeyed deep into
the south
with a camera and pen in hand
recording *** folk culture
she wrote countless books plays and articles infused with the rhythm of her people
Zora's fame would come from one book "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
but throughout her life she was
legendary for her ***.
She was bodacious, she was outrageous. She enjoyed shaking things up
She's a southern black woman who wants to be scholar and a writer
living in a white world of letters... ...And that was one thing I liked about her,
her independence. She didn't care about you and what you thought.
Zora could go from dialact
to the most beautiful English
that you could possibly imagine. It was like music when she spoke.
Zora was kind of feisty and kind of raunchy.
She could tell you to go to hell, and make you enjoy the trip.