Words of Zora Neale Hurston
“Somebody else may have my rapturous glance at the archangels. The springing of the yellow line of the morning out of the misty deep of dawn is glory enough for me.
“I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms. When the consciousness we know as life ceases, I know that I shall still be part and parcel of the world.
“I was a part before the sun rolled into shape and burst forth in the glory of change. I was when the earth was hurled out from its fiery rim. I shall return with the earth to Father Sun and still exist in substance when the sun has lost its fire and disintegrated into infinity to perhaps become a part of the whirling rubble of space.
“Why fear? The stuff of my being is the matter, ever-changing, ever-moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men?
“The wide belt of the universe does not need finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance.”
— from Dust Tracks On A Road: An Autobiography, by Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays
Read more about Zora Neale Hurston and her work at The Life and Legacy of Zora Neale Hurston: ‘A Genius of the South’ | The Dig at Howard University
