Saturday, April 13, 2013

Zora Neal Houston

Zora Neal Houston was born on January 7th 1891. She attended Morgan state university and recived her B.A in anthropology in 1928. Zora Neal Houston was a novelist folklorist and anthropologist. She was a prototypical authority in black culture from the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920's. She pursued this objective by combining literature and anthropology. She gain attention with her short stories that she wrote one of the called " John redding goes to sea ". Which ended up in the black litarcy magazines. Zora Neal Houston's first novel called " Jonah's gourd vine " was published in 1934 it was a good success.

In 1937 she had one of her greatest books published called  "their eyes watching god ". Her final novel was published in 1948 it was called " seraph on the suewanne " it was a critical failure for her. During the work war 2 ear her literacy influence faded. She had another reputation in the civilrights movement. She died on poverty.  The date of her death was January 28 1960.


“Those that don't got it,
can't show it.

Those that got it,
can't hide it.”   

What Zora Neal Houston means is that if you are ugly or bad at sports you can't show the good that the people want to see. People see what they want and you can't change that about them. And what she means by "those who got it can't hide it" means that if toys are beautiful and good at sports you can't hide the fact that you are so good or so beautiful you can't just become ugly the next day or bad at that sprot the next day if you have it show it and be proud of it. 

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