Tag: Zora Neale Hurston

You’re not race-less yet?

.Reading time 4 minutes.

Still signing up and showing up for the role of colored people, black, brown, red, yellow, white and otherwise?  Well, here are a few words of wisdom from two of my favorite writers to get you to choose differently and to say something more about who you are as a human being.  Because race is […]

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Sending word

.Reading time 9 minutes.

Life is filled with false starts, abrupt stops, detours and wrong turns. We didn’t know it would take this long to come to ourselves, that there were so many copies to choose from, that being original is harder than it looks, that it is easier to repeat, to nod in agreement with the majority, that […]

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It’s All About How You Look At It

.Reading time 3 minutes.

  Recently, my husband and I wanted to break from our normal routine and add another restaurant to those we would frequent in the District.  Named for Zora Neale Hurston’s hometown, Eatonville was established in 2009 and is near Busboys and Poets on 14th and U Streets.  The restaurants are strategically placed near each other as a […]

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Race Is Not My Reality

.Reading time 3 minutes.

“I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.” ~Zora Neale Hurston   Zora Neale Hurston, the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, wrote these words in a letter to the poet Countee Cullen.  But, much like Paul’s letters […]

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