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.
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...
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...
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...