Lisa Sublett

“An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happened.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.”
― Erich Fromm, On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power

“Responding to Wright’s critique, Hurston claimed that she had wanted at long last to write a black novel, and “not a treatise on sociology.” It is this urge that resonates in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon and Beloved, and in Walker’s depiction of Hurston as our prime symbol of “racial health—a sense of black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings, a sense that is lacking in so much black writing and literature.” In a tradition in which male authors have ardently denied black literary paternity, this is a major development, one that heralds the refinement of our notion of tradition: Zora and her daughters are a tradition-within-the-tradition, a black woman’s voice.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“The worst thing in life is not to end up all alone. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.”
― Robin McLaurin Williams