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Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
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First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston's candid, funny, bold, and poignant autobiography, an imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent place among the leading artists... read more

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  • “Maybe, some of the details of my birth as told me might be a little inaccurate, but it is pretty well established that I really did get born”
  • “learn right now, not to let your head start more than your behind can stand”
  • “I made particular friendship with one huge tree and always played about its roots”
  • “A cosmic loneliness was my shadow. Nothing and nobody around me really touched me. It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.”
  • “Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person”
  • “there is an age when children are fit company for spirits. Before they have absorbed too much of earthy things to be able to fly with the unseen things that soar.”
  • “That hour began my wanderings. Not so much in geography, but in time. Then not so much in time as in spirit”
  • “You cannot have knowledge and worship at the same time. Mystery is the essence of divinity”
  • “There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the hart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet”
  • “I was a southerner, and had the map of Dixie on my tongue”
  • “I had hundreds of books under my skin”
  • “There is always something fiendish and loathsome about a person who threatens to deprive you of your way of making a living”
  • “Research is formalized curiosity”
  • “That was the first time it was called to my attention that self-interest rides over all sorts of lives.”
  • “Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural. There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.”
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  • I found out too that you are bound to be jostled in the “crowded street of life.” That in itself need not be dangerous unless you have the open razors of personal vanity in your pants pocket. The passers-by don’t hurt you, but if you go around like that, they make you hurt yourself.
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  • 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.
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Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me.

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  1. Zora Neale Hurston (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Perennial
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Publication Date: 1991
ISBN: 0060965673
Page Count: 320

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