Mastodawn

Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God is one of the greatest love stories in the English language. #ZoraNealeHurston #AllSkinFolksAin'tKinFolks

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Our Human Family Jan 27

but we must choose to use it.

Love one another.

#Community #HumanRights #Humanity #Love #ourhumanfam #WordsOfWisdom #ZoraNealeHurston #LoveOneAnother

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Afroféminas Jan 26

Blues, vampiros y apropiación: quién se queda con el alma de la música negra
En Clarksdale, Mississipp
https://afrofeminas.com/2026/01/26/blues-vampiros-y-apropiacion-quien-se-queda-con-el-alma-de-la-musica-negra/
#CulturaCineYTelevisin #afrodescendientes #Afrofminas #Afrofeminas #ApropiacinCultural #Blues #DisporaAfricana #discriminacin #EstadosUnidos #JukeJoints #Juneteenth #MsicaNegra #Mississippi #PatrimonioCultural #racismo #RyanCoogler #Sinners #TurismoCultural #ZoraNealeHurston

Ericka Simone Jan 8

"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein."
Happy belated birthday, #ZoraNealeHurston.

Chess Soul Jan 7

It's #ZoraNealeHurston 's 135th birthday in our hearts🎉

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BLK News Now!Dec 12

"I do not pray.... I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men.... Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility." – #ZoraNealeHurston #BlackHistory

Andrew Shields Dec 8

suddenly fluttering to a new song

Zora in Beaufort, 1940
Terrance Hayes

#Poetry #TerranceHayes #ZoraNealeHurston #Beaufort

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1740165/zora-in-beaufort-1940

Zora in Beaufort, 1940

Around town she heard of ancestors who escaped into the swamps living for decades on raccoon, snakeroot & turtle soup, all of which Zora recorded, but in church she sang a song about a mule on a mountain, pausing from time to time to pass along tales & details about other diasporic Black folk she…

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