“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

— Zora Neale Hurston · Wisdom quote

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. — Zora Neale Hurston quote card
Novelist and anthropologist · 1891 – 1960

Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer and anthropologist at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance, celebrated for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Trained under Franz Boas, she documented the folklore, music and speech of the rural Black South.

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