Zora Neale Hurston Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

• People can be slave-ships in shoes.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Shoes, Slave Ships, People

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

• Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Black, Granddaughter, Elbows

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.153, Feminist Press at CUNY

• Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Go!" I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Depression, Daughter, Struggle

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