AtomicQuote

Valerie Boyd Quotes

Harlem’s rents were twelve to thirty dollars a month higher than in other areas of the city, although black New Yorkers earned lower salaries than their white counterparts. In the mid-1920s, thirty do...

Valerie Boyd

Harlem’s rents were twelve to thirty dollars a month higher than in other areas of the city, although black New Yorkers earned lower salaries than their white counterparts. In the mid-1920s, thirty do...

I shall never forget how the red ball of the sun hung on the horizon and raced along with the train for a short space, she later wrote, and then plunged below the belly-band of the earth. There have b...

Valerie Boyd

I shall never forget how the red ball of the sun hung on the horizon and raced along with the train for a short space, she later wrote, and then plunged below the belly-band of the earth. There have b...

About Author
Valerie Boyd (December 11, 1963 – February 12, 2022) was an American writer and academic. She was best known for her biography of Zora Neale Hurston entitled Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. She was an associate professor and the Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia, where she taught narrative nonfiction writing, as well as arts and literary journalism.

She also managed to win a citywide spelling bee, beating out students at all the other Negro schools in Jacksonville. I received an atlas of the world and a Bible as prizes, she recalled, besides so m...

Valerie Boyd

She also managed to win a citywide spelling bee, beating out students at all the other Negro schools in Jacksonville. I received an atlas of the world and a Bible as prizes, she recalled, besides so m...

The one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay.

Valerie Boyd

The one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay.

True, I played, fought and studied with other children, but always I stood apart within. … A cosmic loneliness was my shadow.

Valerie Boyd

True, I played, fought and studied with other children, but always I stood apart within. … A cosmic loneliness was my shadow.

Zora and her playmate Carrie Roberts also spent long afternoons reading what Moses told the Hebrews not to do in Leviticus, Zora remembered. In that way I found out a number of things the old folks wo...

Valerie Boyd

Zora and her playmate Carrie Roberts also spent long afternoons reading what Moses told the Hebrews not to do in Leviticus, Zora remembered. In that way I found out a number of things the old folks wo...

Zora did not mince words in this chapter and nothing seemed to escape her critical eye. Speaking of Christian hypocrisy, for example, she wrote: Popes and Prelates, Bishops and Elders have halted serm...

Valerie Boyd

Zora did not mince words in this chapter and nothing seemed to escape her critical eye. Speaking of Christian hypocrisy, for example, she wrote: Popes and Prelates, Bishops and Elders have halted serm...