Quotes from book
Dust Tracks on a Road
Dust Tracks on a Road is the 1942 autobiography of black American writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston.
“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun."”
Source: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch.2 : My Folks, p. 13.
Context: Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun." We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
“Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.”
Variant: If you haven’t got it, you can’t show it. If you have got it, you can’t hide it.
Source: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 12 : My People! My People!
Source: Dust Tracks on a Road
Source: Dust Tracks on a Road
“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.
Source: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 10 : Research, p. 143.
Source: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 14 : Love, p. 203.
Source: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 10 : Research, p. 143
“If you haven’t got it, you can’t show it. If you have got it, you can’t hide it.”
Source: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 12 : My People! My People!
