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soracities · 1 year

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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

#q #lit #quotes #zora neale hurston #their eyes were watching god #all these wonders still to be ours #reading #m #x

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letsgetmessi · 2 months

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“You are the perfect verse over a tight beat.” - Swoons, Brown Sugar

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lets-get-lit · 3 months

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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

#quotes #books #literature #lit #classics #academia #light academia #dark academia #chaotic academia #book #book quotes #quotation #Zora Neale Hurston #Their Eyes Were Watching God #Fiction #Historical Fiction #Novel #Famous Book Quotes

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bnmxfld · 2 years

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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Zora Neale Hurston / Their Eyes Were Watching God

#zora neale hurston #their eyes were watching god #text #quote #quotes

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runawaymarbles · 5 months

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I don't know why rabies discourse is a) a thing or b) coming up again, but if any Americans are participating on the side of rabies I am going to assume that this is another consequence of banning To Kill A Mockingbird and Their Eyes Were Watching God in schools.

#op #the disk horse #to kill a mockingbird #their eyes were watching god #both instill a healthy amount of respect for rabies

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smokefalls · 10 months

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All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

#Zora Neale Hurston #Their Eyes Were Watching God #quote #fiction #classics #2023 reads

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bettsfic · 4 months

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Ohh any thoughts or notes on their eyes were watching god? It's one of my very very favorite books!

their eyes were watching god is one of those books that reminds you that genius is a real thing, and that real genius often goes unrecognized during the lifetime of the artist. creativity is always walking the fine line between the familiar and the unknown, and the closer to the unknown your work is, the harder it is to find an audience. that's why the work of criticism is so important i think--critics are people who seek out newness and bring it to an audience. what brought me to hurston was alice walker's essay "in search of zora" which is imo one of the greatest essays ever written.

here's the end of it:

every time i read this it gives me chills. it's amazing to me how many great artists are buried in weeds. van gogh was so loathed in auvers that theo couldn't get anyone to approve a place to bury him.

it's so intensely tragic. i really get what walker means by grief feeling absurd.

since i read their eyes were watching god for funsies i don't have many critical thoughts about it. i love that it's an odyssey. i think it's a masterwork of voice and style. i admire the use of frame narrative. janie and tea cake are such iconic characters. there's just so much to learn from it in terms of craft, and i hope one day i get to teach it in an intermediate or advanced fiction class.

i'd love to hear your thoughts on it as well! i'm especially interested to hear what makes it one of your favorites?

#their eyes were watching god #book recs

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whenweallvote · 2 months

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In collaboration with Black Voters Matter, we made this list of our 7️⃣ favorite books by Black authors being banned in schools and libraries across the country. Many of these helped to broaden America’s view of Black people, art, and culture.

Have you read any of these yet, and are any on your Reading List this year? Comment below with your favorites! 📚

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sorryforthebonyelbows · 2 years

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Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

Hannibal, S3. Ep2 : Primavera

Billy Graham

Herakles, EURIPIDES (translated by Tom Sleigh)

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Yves Olade, Slaughterhouse

Hannibal, S2. Ep11 : Ko No Mono

Yves Olade, Slaughterhouse

Hannibal, S1. Ep2 : Amuse-Bouche

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eighthxjune · 1 year

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#their eyes were watching god #zora neale hurston #black writer #beauty #romance #love story #first edition #book club #novel #love

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 3 months

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"She began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind...

She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making. "

-- from "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston (born January 7, l891)

[thanks Sherry Baker]

#words and writing #quotes #Their Eyes Were Watching God #Zora Neale Hurston #sherry Baker

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soracities · 1 year

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[She] saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches.

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

#q #lit #quotes #prose #zora neale hurston #their eyes were watching god #life everlasting #reading #m #x

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bookfirstlinetourney · 9 months

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