Zora Neale Hurston Quotes:
Ocupation: Anthropologist
Life: January 7, 1891 - January 28, 1960
Birthday: January 7
Death: January 28
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
source: World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)
topic: Strong, Hurt, Dirty, All Black, Colored Eyes, African Women, African American History, African American Inspirational, African American Love, Black History Month, Black Race, Sharpening, Sobbing
