Posted on February 19, 2012 with 521 notes.

thevibetheory:

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”

In memory of  Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960)

Via: thisisblackwomen Source: afro-art-chick
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