Zora Neale Hurston Quote

I did not know then, as I know now, that people are prone to build a statue of the kind of person that it pleases them to be. And few people want to be forced to ask themselves, 'What if there is no me like my statue?'


Dust Tracks on a Road (1942)


I did not know then, as I know now, that people are prone to build a statue of the kind of person that it pleases them to be. And few people want to...

I did not know then, as I know now, that people are prone to build a statue of the kind of person that it pleases them to be. And few people want to...

I did not know then, as I know now, that people are prone to build a statue of the kind of person that it pleases them to be. And few people want to...

I did not know then, as I know now, that people are prone to build a statue of the kind of person that it pleases them to be. And few people want to...