Ocupation: Anthropologist
Life: January 7, 1891 - January 28, 1960
Birthday: January 7
Death: January 28
The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet… From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.
source: Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.41, University of Illinois Press
topic: Morning, Flower, Air, Aprons, Morning Air, Picking Flowers